3" suspension question.

[3LGQ]

Hey well i finally chucken in my lift last night and it looks as though i cant get my sway bars back on :( like there is a good 2.5 inch gap before i could put it on. any ideas? also is now when i go over bump at the rear i can here a sorta of clunk clunk noise. i think this is teh sway bar moving? or is it the fact the sway bar isnt in?

thanks in advance.

[GUDeano]

Clunk is not very helpful It could be a hundred things. Perhaps your panhard bushes are worn and the lift just pushed them to the brink.

I have a GU and with 3" lift my sway bars bolt back up fine however I think an extention on the down links would help them work better, and let the suspention flex more.

Bump clunk is more often than not panhard bushes in my experience.

[Crooksey]

if you wish to keep your sway bars on you get extedned pins from ARB.. There a Whiteline product and are about $60 i think.

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/3751/photo0081mediumwi6.jpg

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[MikeH]

Hey they look neat. ARB stockists should push those when they sell you a lift kit.
Looks like it could be easily welded onto a factory swaybar disconnect too. If you have steel and bolts on hand you can space down the plates the standard linkages bolt to.

I've also lifted mine about 3 inches, and discovered my rear brakes are doing next to nothing because I didn't think (and no-one told me) to adjust the Brake load sensing valve.

I presume at standard height the panhard rod should be level, so I'm going to try extending the linkage by the same height as the difference between the panhard rod bushes

[paul44b]

Coils might not be seated in properly,did you put the rubber insulators back in?also takes awhile for suspension to settle...Paul
swaybar links look good...

[Burra boy]

Hey, do you need to adjust the rear brake pressure valve if you put a 2 inch lift in?????

This could explain a few things....:rolleyes:

[truckster]

Swaybars look good in the shed against the wall :)

Wish I could find extended links for my GU for $60, one snapped on RHS... most kits I found are $200+

[MikeH]

http://www.patrol4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11332&highlight=suspension+lift+brake+valve

[81GGO]

are they much different to the gq? i need some too:confused:
Swaybars look good in the shed against the wall :)

Wish I could find extended links for my GU for $60, one snapped on RHS... most kits I found are $200+

[truckster]

are they much different to the gq? i need some too:confused:
Most sites list them GQ/GU....

[ZORDO]

Swaybars look good in the shed against the wall :)

Wish I could find extended links for my GU for $60, one snapped on RHS... most kits I found are $200+

Whiteline extended sway bar links are only $75pr
Don't know where you got $200
Cheers

[truckster]

Don't know where you got $200
3-4 places I called and websites before Nov long weekend, needing them as it snapped before murray sunset trip i did..

if they are that cheap, kewl. :)

[3LGQ]

well i went to ARB today and no go on the extension they dont stock them or some ****. so i went to snake racing website and got some disconnects but cost me $245.oo, $75 thats awesome but i guess not disconnects?

[Crooksey]

no those ones are only extended ones

[truckster]

Why are the disconnects SO much more than the extensions, there isnt that much more to them.. + the bitch factor of refitting the disconnects after a day's play in muddy crap.

[dieseltrol]

well i went to ARB today and no go on the extension they dont stock them or some ****. so i went to snake racing website and got some disconnects but cost me $245.oo, $75 thats awesome but i guess not disconnects?

Was looking at snake disconnects myself, and found a bloke who goes by suspension stuff (.com.au) on the web, Brissy I think, did them for $170 to my door..
Very helpful,put the order in yesterday, so have yet to turn up, but will post if I have any problems...

Phill

[g4cube]

Only heard bad things about quick disconnects. They are hard to do when covered in mud etc and most people stop bothering after the first few times. I would take bars off all together or just get or make some longer mounts i went chuck the sway bars away.

[KillaMav]

I don't know if you should do this, but I just had mine lengthed at the rear by 3" and the front by around 1.5" as they attach to the radius arms and when I want for flex offroad I just unbolt one pin from the swaybars and I get a lot for flex. All I have to do is undo two bolts and I have to swaybars. Sometimes I can be bothered reattaching before going back onroad, or just after I have cleaned the threads.