H-sport sway creaking...update - detaching from bushing
03-19-2007, 09:53 PM
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H-sport sway creaking...update - detaching from bushing
This is a follow-up message to one I posted last week about a creaking h-sport setup:
After getting some direction on the forum as to what it could be, I took the car back in to the installer where they tightened everything under load. The bad news is they told me that they thought bars could be mis-manufactured with wrong angles. I believe they added washers to keep the white plastic 'connector' (end-link?) on the bushing. After driving off, I notice some minor creaking developing, and it starts to get worse, like a metal-on-metal noise. After getting home, I look under the car and saw the sway bar bolt making contact with the shock absorber cylinder like in the pics:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/100262/detached.jpg">
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/100262/contact_driver_rear.jpg">
Passenger side rear sway...normal?
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/100262/passenger_rear.jpg">
I emailed pictures and called H-sport, and not being a master of suspension terminology, know I sounded pretty darn uninformed. But it seems that all that's needed are some 10mm fender washers to hold it together. Hotchkis sounded suprised that there was no washer on the lower mounting point, as it should have been in the install kit.
Has anyone had an experience like this, or dealt with a 'defective' h-sport sway or some other version of improper fitment?
After getting some direction on the forum as to what it could be, I took the car back in to the installer where they tightened everything under load. The bad news is they told me that they thought bars could be mis-manufactured with wrong angles. I believe they added washers to keep the white plastic 'connector' (end-link?) on the bushing. After driving off, I notice some minor creaking developing, and it starts to get worse, like a metal-on-metal noise. After getting home, I look under the car and saw the sway bar bolt making contact with the shock absorber cylinder like in the pics:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/100262/detached.jpg">
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/100262/contact_driver_rear.jpg">
Passenger side rear sway...normal?
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/100262/passenger_rear.jpg">
I emailed pictures and called H-sport, and not being a master of suspension terminology, know I sounded pretty darn uninformed. But it seems that all that's needed are some 10mm fender washers to hold it together. Hotchkis sounded suprised that there was no washer on the lower mounting point, as it should have been in the install kit.
Has anyone had an experience like this, or dealt with a 'defective' h-sport sway or some other version of improper fitment?
03-20-2007, 06:12 AM
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after looking at that twice, it looks like you have one side bolted on the wrong side >
of the swaybar.
One side is bolted outside the swaybar.
The side which is hitting is bolted INSIDE the swaybar.
Is this correct?
One side is bolted outside the swaybar.
The side which is hitting is bolted INSIDE the swaybar.
Is this correct?
03-20-2007, 07:14 AM
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It looks like the leftside droplink is on the wrong side of the bar. >
I don't think the bar could be installed backwards, the bends wouldn't allow it to fit.
It would hit a few places.
It would hit a few places.
03-20-2007, 07:43 AM
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Agree...he should have the installer correct the bar install and replace the sway end links...
...it was the installer's mistake. The installer should pay for the new end links.
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03-20-2007, 08:39 AM
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OK, I looked at mine.
Firstly, the bar is between the link and the shock on both sides. The link is not bending like that.
They either installed it wrong or you have the wrong bar. Coul you take a pic from further away so I can see the bends in the sway bar?
They either installed it wrong or you have the wrong bar. Coul you take a pic from further away so I can see the bends in the sway bar?
