my sway bar disconnected its self
 

i've knowed of a blown shock on my driver's front for about a month. then it started handleing really loose up there and i blamed it on the shock then i was putting a differant set of wheels on my car today and i saw my front racingbeat swaybar was totoally disconnected from the endlink, thats lame lol. i bought new shocks today

this is me taking a hard right hander at the autox with a blown shock and a disconnected sway bar its kinda funny how much its rolling lol
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You said that you have a racing beat swaybar? Did a link break, or did the bolts come out. I may get one soon, and this could be very bad if they fail.

Yep, that happened to me once. I'd just installed the bar the week before and hadn't checked the links again after. My links loosened a bit too after I installed my spherical bearing ones. Moral of the story, drive it for a couple days then re-torque everything.

blue loctite?

loctite tends to be a bitch and a half to remove after a while so i dont really like it, its not bad, just find an exit strategy too, i like the re-torque idea best, it gives it some break in time before it sets

just a week ago, it happened to my friends' car. it turned out that his mazda sway bar link was not installed properly and loose. so i suggests that have it checked and see if what's wrong. and be sure that it is properly tight and installed. good luck

maybe i'm just anal, but i never have a problem when i tighten things to spec with a torque wrench. i try to use it all the time...

how about getting a bunch of nylock nuts in the right size, and just using them?

i still have stock end links and the nut just fell off nothing on the swaybar broke, i've got to get a new nut and i'm going to loctite the others too

when i installed it last year i used a torque wrench and test drove it and rechecked everything. i'm going to go over everything again with a torque wrench and loctite

if you get the Racing Beat adjustable endlinks they actually come with locknuts i do believe.

Superglue it back in, problem solved!

You CAN'T torque the S5 endlinks, because you need to have an allen key in there. I had tightened them up pretty well, but after the one came off that one time I re-torqued it all and never had another problem. I use all metal locknuts on my new links.

mine BROKE off. I don't know why but I've destroyed a STOCK swaybar link AND the RB adj. link. same side as you too.

I have cusco, and it was good.

^^^:rlaugh: ok :scratch: