Just Installed the BMR Adjustable Panhard Rod
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Just Installed the BMR Adjustable Panhard Rod
wow I feel the change from stock to this, is there any dos and donts for the adjustable parts? how far can the adjust?
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If you're at stock ride height, you can probably get away with setting it to the same length as your stock bar. It wouldn't hurt to check it anyway.
Mine is a double rod ended bar, so you might need to adapt these instructions. *NOTE* It is much easier to do this if your front and rear tires are the same width. This is how I did mine:
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Mine is a double rod ended bar, so you might need to adapt these instructions. *NOTE* It is much easier to do this if your front and rear tires are the same width. This is how I did mine:
- Wet the pavement on your street. Resist the urge to do a burnout.
- Drive straight through the puddle, make note of how far off your rear tires track from the fronts. Measure this, write it down, along with whether they are too far left or right.
- Jack up rear end, support with jack stands, remove rear wheels.
- Lower rear axle, but leave jack just touching it.
- Unbolt both ends of your panhard bar.
- Loosen both jam nuts all the way.
- Slip the bolts back through both ends of the bar, but don't replace the nuts yet.
- Tape a piece of string to one of your brake rotors.
- Tape a piece of cardboard to the floor under the string.
- Hang a weight on the other end of the string. I used a large washer with a pen taped to it.
- Make a mark on the cardboard once the weight is hanging straight down.
- Use your measurements from step 2 to make a mark where the bob SHOULD be.
- Twist the bar (or adjuster, if it's a single adjustable) until the bob is over the mark.
- CAREFULLY remove the bolts, apply some thread lock (I use blue) to where the jam nuts will be and tighten the jam nuts down. Do this as best you can without moving the positions of the ends.
- Replace the bolts, nuts, wheels (remove the bob from the rotor first McFly). Torque everything to spec. If I remember correctly, the nuts should be torqued to 80 ft-lbs OR the bolts to 55 ft-lbs, but double-check this.
- Lower the car and run through your puddle again to double-check.
-Mike
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*bringing up an old thread*... so referring to the post above mine.. could you theoretically loosen the jam nuts and leave the bolts in the holes and just turn the bar by hand to adjust the bard out or in? or is it a must to remove one end.. also how the **** do you loosen those jam nuts?? i know im no hulk hogan but god damn i can practially lift myself off the ground trying to move those things
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For mine, open ended was all I could get on it. It is like 1 1/8 for the the jam nuts and 1 1/4 for the bar itself. I had to borrow from a truck mechanic as I didn't have anything bigger than a 13/16s. I think mine is a UMI though.
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im gonna have to see if i can hook up a breaker bar or something to the wrench... its used so it might have loc tite on it already.. would WD40 or PBblaster take care of that?
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To center mine I took a large nuts,tied them on a string,tape them to the bottom of the 1/4 in the center of the wheel well.crawled under the car and adjusted the panhard until it was the same on both sides.took about 20 minutes.
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To center mine I took a large nuts,tied them on a string,tape them to the bottom of the 1/4 in the center of the wheel well.crawled under the car and adjusted the panhard until it was the same on both sides.took about 20 minutes.
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Originally Posted by nodnarb481
*bringing up an old thread*... so referring to the post above mine.. could you theoretically loosen the jam nuts and leave the bolts in the holes and just turn the bar by hand to adjust the bard out or in? or is it a must to remove one end.. also how the **** do you loosen those jam nuts?? i know im no hulk hogan but god damn i can practially lift myself off the ground trying to move those things
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I am thinking about buying this because I get some rub in hard corners with my 315's. I heard if you center the rear with one of these it will help with the 315's. Is this true?
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by lomaximumta
I am thinking about buying this because I get some rub in hard corners with my 315's. I heard if you center the rear with one of these it will help with the 315's. Is this true?
Thanks!
Thanks!