mjames08

Just a heads up for you guys about to install Eibach, or any other type of springs..

I brought my car to a tire shop to have a set of Eibach springs put on the SC, and it came out one side lower than the other (by 2 inches!!). We went through 2 different sets of Eibachs and couldn't figure out why it was doing this!! It turns out after 3 days of work, the technician installed the stock rear sway bar wrong, and it was causing the car to lean.

cupete

When you install springs, you have to remove front/rear sway bars? I am asking this because I installed Eibach springs and my passenger side is higher than the driver side by about 3/4 inches. I am wondering if installing sway bars wrong might have caused the problem in my car as well.

Peter~

mjames08

that's how my car was.. my passenger side was way higher tan my driver side.. the shop 're-installed' the rear sway bar..

cupete

Hmm... Interesting, just rear sway bar? and not the front ones? How did they find out if they installed the sway bars wrong in the first place?

Peter~

mjames08

Not sure.. I am assuming you can tell when you look at it..

vuvu

That's exactly happening to me. Could you tell me more where the rear sway bar is? Does sway bar indicate anything wrong by looking at it?

My passenger side is higher that the driver side. However, in my case, I installed only the new front struts with the KYB gas struts. I did not replace the rear ones.

Thanks.

808state

the shocks/struts connect to the lower control arm for both the front and the rear. they don't actually remove the sway bar when installing your shocks/struts, but rather they removed the linkage (dumbell looking thing about 5" long. toyota/lexus calls them stabalizer linkage) from the sway bar to the lower control arm. take a look at parts.com for an exploded view.

if they removed the sway bar, then you better get some money back because they probably charged you for extra labor. you don't need to remove the sway bar in the installation of the shocks/struts/springs. just the linkage. if they forgot to install the linkage, i wouldn't go back to the shop especially if there was a 2" difference from passenger to driver side.

if they forgot to connect the linkage back to the control arm, then possibly one side will be greatly higher than the other side (you were saying 2").

mjames08

Thanks for clarifying 808.. I dont know too much about suspension..

cupete

Stabilizer linkage exists on both front and rear sway bars?

808state

yup..front and rear...you can actualy drive without the stabalizer bar linkage on if you had to isolate any noise that may have come from your suspension.

2jzgttegs

iTrader: (6)

My car is doing the same thing also.... LOL Rear passenger side is higher than the driver side.

2jzgttegs

iTrader: (6)

I just look under my car and realized one of the stabilizer links is bent on the driver side

TPIOlds

I am just doing the same thing on my cousins SC400, and discovered that there ia a crack in the sub frame causinfng the driver side rear to sit lower than the passanger side rear. you might want to take a look at this.