Hi guys. My AWESOME wife bought me a UMI Front Sway bar (sold 35mm I believe?) and a rear solid sway bar (dont know sizes, I know they are BOTH upgrades over stock).

Anyways its for my 2000 Camaro. How hard are these to put on? They both came with new end-links. I never tried to install these before. I looked at LS1howto.com (I think that was the name of the site) but the pictures are too dark for me to really see.

In YOUR opinion, how hard are these to install? I am not a mechanic by any means but I have tools and I have a jack and stands..

Help me out please

 

Ls1howto.com

 

shouldnt be too bad to do. you might want to spray the bolts first with penetrating oil so they will be easier to get off. also while you are there get poly bushings. get the black ones from energy susp or something comporable. typically the black poly bushings have graphite added which will prevent them from squeaking. also lube them up really good. just my 2 cents.

 

Thank you for your advice, but please read the entire post. I made a mention to that site.

Thank you.

 

easy install all you need is a ratchet and a wrench(forget the size). Take off the old swaybar and endlinks/bushing, install new swaybar,endlinks,bushings. Easiest to do on a lift, or if you have ramps.

Make sure you do it with the suspension loaded, and not the rear end floating, doing it with the rear unloaded will cause unnecessary load on the endlinks/bushings when set back down.

and also, remember to put the rear sway bar on the right way, i say this because i have seen it done before. The rear sway bar should not touch the diff. cover, it should loop below it. hope this is of any help....

 

Thank you VERY much. That helps to know to have the rear "loaded" when I do this,

And as for the wrong way. I could see me doing something like this lol

 

My girl bought me front and rear umi swars bars as well. I bought myself some new on-car adjustable LCAs and panhard bar. Waiting on spring to get here!

 

I just bought a UMI drag sway bar. cant wait for it to get here. its a pretty easy job.

i think the hardest part which wasnt that hard was getting my old rusted endlinks off when i replaced those a while back. I just took a dremel and cut them in half since they were bad.

 

FreakishSpeed- Sway bars can be tough to install, but not on ours. It is actually very simple as it just bolts right up without any difficulty. UMI makes top notch stuff, you are going to love your car when its done!

 

Not hard as long as you have some wrenches, sockets, wratchets, and some pliers. Definately spray the endlinks with some wd40 or pb blaster (my preference). I dont recall the exact size but it should be either a 10, 13, or 15mm. Pretty straightforward unbolt the endlinks then the bushings and the bar is out. Putting them back on i would loosely put the bushings and brackets on then you can still have play to get the endlinks lined up properly. The only thing i see that could be a problem is taking the endlinks loose sometimes if the endlinks are rusted or are being stubborn the rod itself will turn making it unable to get the nut loose so you will need a good pair of pliers to hold the rod, a nice impact gun-wratchet or if you dont have patience a good cut off wheel and you can just cut straight through that sob, haha. Hope that wasnt too confusing!

 

Lol my bad. Skimming over Half reading. I changed my bushings out on my sway bars not to long ago and it is easier with the rear end jacked up. Under the pumpkin!

 

Congrats! If she really loved you though, she would've gave you a set of Strano bars ... j/k. Actually, sway bars is one of the easy installs on our cars. Just take your time, it's hard to mess up really. If you take your time, first time, front and rear should take about 2.5hrs ... good luck!

 

Yeah i have changed several on all different types of cars without the suspension loaded and never had problems. Jack the car up and dig in!

 

thank you everyone! I look forward to the weather complying with me trying to do this.

The days I can do it, it either SNOWS or is 17 degrees out! ouuuch!

So, I will get back to you guys on how I did when the weather complies. I hear Tuesday is another doozie.

 

It wont be that hard once you start. You'll prolly be like, "this is a piece of cake."