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My little review: I had the rear sway bar put on my AWD today. I can definitely feel a difference when turning over ~30mph. The back actually feels tighter than the front now with the front lift/rolling a tad more than the back.
did anyone have a hard time taking off the 17mm blot for the rear? i dont want to mess up r bend the sway bar links, i tried but its not turning a bit. any tips?
Originally Posted by fasteddy91
Go to the gym before you start
just kidding, no problem here....remember, lefty loosy, righty tighty
It's not a strength thing, it's a leverage issue. The nuts are way up there, with no clearance room behind. I needed to buy a 17mm shallow 1/2" drive socket so I could get the leverage I needed with a breaker bar. Once I had that, it was easy.
My fault. This is off topic, but your tein rubber silencers are installed incorrectly. They need to be toward the top, where the coils are closer together and prone to noise when they make contact going over bumps.
My fault. This is off topic, but your tein rubber silencers are installed incorrectly. They need to be toward the top, where the coils are closer together and prone to noise when they make contact going over bumps.
Yeah, it doesn't look like it. I actually just had the F-Sports w/ silencers installed last week, 5 on each side. It's pointless to have them at the bottom. The coils do not touch there.
lolz, the reason i did that because everyone has its on top and still got the noise , i figured let put in the bottom and see, and no noise lolz, so i keep its there, just tried something different, can alway lift its up and reverse lolz,
OK, more information here. The stock sway bar for an IS-F is not 16mm as has been widely reported on this and other forums. I contacted Lexus 3 weeks ago and asked for this information, they finally got back to me yesterday. It's 17mm. Just to be sure, I borrowed a set of calibrated calipers this morning and measured my bar, it measured 17.2mm. So, it really has an OD of 17mm. Therefore and IS-X50 RWD has a rear bar of 15mm. The AWD 250 is 14mm. The F-Sport upgrade rear bars are 19mm for the RWD cars, and 17.5mm for the AWD 250. I have attached a MS word document with the specs.
BTW, this is still for sale.
Lou
So I just received my F-Sport sway bar. I ordered the AWD sway. I thought all the rears F-Sport sways where the same? Then I read the above quote about the F-Sport sways for the diffrent models. Is the above poster correct?
Well it doesn't really matter if they are the same, because you have a AWD and that's all that matters. As long as it fits your car, you have nothing to worry about.
02-09-09, 03:08 PM
...sooooo much better
I had been missing out
