If anyone has these. How did u guys adjust these with load on them?

Thanks

 

or an alighment shop that knows how to properly do this?

 

In for the answers. I just installed mine last week, but don't know how to use them yet!

 

you want to install them so that there is no preload on the sway bar when the car is at rest. its best to adjust them on a lift cause its really hard to get under the car and adjust it when its on the ground (if thats even possible). if you jack up the wheel and try to adjust it that way, you'll never get the preload right.

you also want the shafts that goes into the sway bar and the control arm to be perpendicular to the rest of the endlink when the car is at rest. if the angle isn't square, the endlinks will wear out faster

 

Ramps would work fine?

 

on ramps the load isn't distributed equally so the control arms wouldn't be in the same position as the car on a level surface, but you should be able to get pretty close, so you're prolly ok

 

aww ramps looks like a long shot with my kit and all.

any shop that can do this?!?! that know what they are doing?

 

speedware would prolly know what they're doing. i took mine to drift office and they let me use their lift to do it while they installed my y pipe

 

What's your list of suspension mods? If you have coil-overs you need a corner weight balance along with alignment, sway bar end-link's set for ride height all done together the cost was about $225 last I heard. The shop I deal with hold to the spec's I give them and lets me stand there and watch during the process. Speedware is good with the race community.

 

You really don't "need" it corner balanced unless your competing and need every last 1/100th of a second, for regular street driving and casual tracking or autox, corner balancing is in no way a requirement. You'd never even notice the difference if you never track your car. And even if you do track, you have to be pretty damn good (I'm talking years of experience) to feel a difference between a corner balanced car and one adjusted with a measuring tape

 

warm milk is on point...lift is best....

i see you have a kit and ramps might be out, but you could put the front on ramps and level the rear by jacking it up to a level position...that would then be as if the car is on the ground level giving you room to install them.....Thats for front..vise versa for rear...

best would be to try a local mom and pop tire or exhaust shop, nine out of ten times their 4 post lifts are not in use and you can negotiate the install yourself for cheap "lift time"

-J

 

I find most places are unwilling to risk liability or want the labor $ for their shop :[

 

changing endlinks is really not that hard... just do some research into installing sways, and it should show you how to install the endlinks.

 

installing wasnt the hard part. its adjusting.

so seems like speedware in redmond is the place to go to adjust these.

 

You can install them by just putting the car on jack stands. If you don't want to do it yourself Jerold Lowe Racing in Carnation knows how to install and adjust them including any suspension part for the Z.

 

can anyone recommed a shop that knows how to adjust these endlinks?

i called some local shops around and they really didnt seem like the knew what they were talking about.

i tried calling speedware? i always get their answering machine.


help?!

 

try drift office, ask for Bill. He was standing right there when i was adjusting mine on their lift, he should know hot to do it

their number is 253 288 3888

 

You can do this at home, it's not hard

The car needs to be on level ground and a load on the suspension. What I do is jack the car up and put some lumber under the tires, I have several peices of 2x10 about 12" long that I stack under the tires. I put 3 under each tire on all four corners. That gives me room to get under the car. Disconnect the endlinks then adjust them so that the bolt slides into the sway bar without any preload and your done.

If you still need a shop, call Group 2 in ballard.

 

can anyone with PG confirm if the front endlinks are the same length center of bolt to center of bolt as the OEM endlink???

-J

 

I'm not sure if I understand the question, the PG endlinks are adjustable in overall length