If you were wondering...

sirwilliam · Post by **sirwilliam** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:22 am

How do I grease my front sway bar?

Prothane Supergrease. Drop the front splash shield. Loosen the bolts of the subframes but don't remove them. It should drop by 3/4". Then loosen or remove the mounts and bushing and lube the bushings. This is on a aftermarket bar with split bushings. If you have a stock bar then you will have to remove the subframes and remove the endlinks. Because the bushings aren't split and the entire bar has to come out. On a stock bar you probably can use lithium grease. They really aren't supposed to require greasing.

spazegun2213 · Post by **spazegun2213** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:58 am

or you can use teflon tape, and it will never squeek... ever.

Post by **complacent** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:30 am

spazegun2213 wrote:or you can use teflon tape, and it will never squeek... ever.

sirwilliam · Post by **sirwilliam** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:13 am

Sweet...didn't know about the tape. Might have to do that. Any type of teflon or something in particular?

Post by **complacent** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:18 am

Just the stuff you would use between brass fittings, nothing special.

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:23 am

it's cheep and you should be able to find it an any hardware store, maybe even Target or Wall Mart. if mine starts to make noise, I'll have to give this a try.

sirwilliam · Post by **sirwilliam** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:25 am

I am a handy dandy man...pretty much build a whole house from the ground up w/ my bare hands (don't mess w/ gas lines...leave that for some other professional)...that being said I have that tape at home for plumbing jobs

sirwilliam · Post by **sirwilliam** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:13 pm

Well, I lucked out and the stupid noise coming from my front suspension was only from the pitch stop. Just needed to be tightened more...no more mind-numbing creaking!

Oh, and since my STi TMIC was out (b/c the pitch stop is right underneath), I decided to throw this in:

(note the temporary breather pipes and custom mounting bracket...you can see in the third pic that I had to remove the splitter...will have to make a custom one now)

Post by **Sabre** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:47 pm

Looking good Will! Did you replace the Y hose with a silicon one?

sirwilliam · Post by **sirwilliam** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:16 pm

sabre wrote:Looking good Will! Did you replace the Y hose with a silicon one?

Thank you, sir. It is a cast Y pipe w/ a blue silicon elbow hose that I had to trim to fit the VF39. I will be designing a custom splitter w/ CAD this week to work w/ the new TMIC.

Post by **Sabre** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:21 pm

Very cool