SatiricalHen

I put some extended links on finally after having my 3 inch lift for a while but now my sway bar hits the bumper tie in bolt head. Has anyone had this problem? Is there a wider sway bar I could use or something? Thanks in advance for all help

toasterknight

Mine is doing this same thing at stock height. I'm curious to see what solutions people have come up with.

peligro113

What's the length of your sway bar link and what angle does your bar currently sit it?

SatiricalHen

I'd say like 9* on the sway bar and the link is ~8 inches long

peligro113

They should be around 15 degrees. Is the sway bar even on both sides? Maybe you can replace that bolt with a carriage type bolt, if you find the right grade bolt sae grade 8 or metric 10.9.

SatiricalHen

So it should be higher than it is now? And it's a round hole so I don't know how I'd get the carriage bolt to keep from spinning.

peligro113

how about something with an allen socket in a rounded head? I'm just trying to figure out something that will work

http://images1.mcmaster.com/mvA/cont...ver=1378284769

SatiricalHen

I have never seen one that big, but I'm going to ace tomorrow so I guess I could look around and see what I could find. If I could find something like a wheel stud that would work great. Just put an impact on the other side and pull the splines into the bracket. Wouldn't stick out much.

Velcro

You might need an adjustable track bar. That one looks stock. Don't usually see this problem. I have a ton on room between my sway bar and the frame.

Depending on how big the hole is you could also run the bolt without a washer, shouldn't need one.

SatiricalHen

Both sides hit. The tie in plate is like 3/16 or 1/4 and the bolt sticks out another 1/4ish so that's half an inch less room

Velcro

I've got enough room to move my big hand around in there, probably about 2 inchs. I don't have bumper brackets, but there definitely should be room. Here is a picture sorry it's not the best.





A ZJ sway bar might be wider and I think will fit. A sway bar is a spring, kind of like a torsion bar. Try rotating your links around the other way and seeing if you can get them to fit that way, it should make a bit of room.

SteveMongr

I used grade 8 carriage bolts.

Velcro

Never mind don't think rotating the links will work. I'm pretty sure something is wrong with either the links or the sway bar or something set up weird. Maybe try going back to factory links and/or getting some sway bar drop brackets or making your own.

SatiricalHen

The only problem I see with this is I believe the hole is too big in the tie in to use a carriage bolt, you think if I used an impact to tighten the nut up maybe the friction would keep it from spinning?

toasterknight

There may not be anything wrong with your suspension as I'm stock and having the exact same problem on both sides.