F&R Sway Bar Installation

[20ducks]

I've been looking at installing the Whiteline Heavy Duty Adjustable Front and Rear Sway Bars with End Links Kit. Is this a project something most car enthusiasts can install themselves?

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[Norm Peterson]

Should be DIY-able.

That's not to say there aren't any little snags along the way.


Norm

 

[Mikepol2]

You need really long ratchet extensions to reach down from the engine bay to the front bar. Be careful not to cross thread the bolts at installation. The rear is straightforward.

 

[kz]

I've been looking at installing the Whiteline Heavy Duty Adjustable Front and Rear Sway Bars with End Links Kit. Is this a project something most car enthusiasts can install themselves?

Rear is super easy. Front is somewhat painful but definitely doable at home (did that twice myself). Long extensions (since some bolts you have to reach from engine bay) and ratcheting wrench (one of driver side bolts on GT has to be done from wheel well unless you want to take alternator off which you don't) are required.

 

[NightmareMoon]

I had a bear of a time freeing the stock bar out of the car while 'just' on jackstands (PP1 bonded bar mounts). I hear others had better luck. A lift would have made it easy.

 

[Dave2013M3]

The front can be a pain in the ass...

 

[FreePenguin]

You need really long ratchet extensions to reach down from the engine bay to the front bar. Be careful not to cross thread the bolts at installation. The rear is straightforward.

this.

I didn't have one, so I attached like 4 extensions together, LOL. went from like 1/2 to 3/8 to like 1/4 into socket, and I broke one of the extensions, I took to Lowes and they handed me a new one. but I could NOT reach the bottom without using every size extension I had on hand. was quite a finagle.

 

[blind*guardian]

Very doable with the extension on the front. The other thing that helped me was a swivel socket to get to some weird angles on 1 or two bolts. I have the WhiteLine bars installed and have them on middle setting in the front and full soft in the rear. Can't complain and they seem to be doing their job well.

 

[fatbillybob]

I work on a lift. The front easy rear impossible. Well with MCS coilover shocks ...impossible. You see the pp1 rear almost hits the coilovers with OEM length adjustable endlink. But it is doable just be careful. The ford performance track bars will hit the coils with oem length endlinks. Longer endlinks clear the coils but at at a very poor angle making for poor unpredicatable sway bar function. I only know this because I run my setup though full compression and droop and I was surprised by the contact.

The FP track bar is weird design. Ford could have just made the trackbar thicker and added another hole. But No...Foord not only made the bar thicker they made the arms longer negating the thicker bar and so they nearly hit the coil. With the endlink add they do hit the coil. Then they also have a weird angle to the end of the bar that makes everything worse to try and install the endlink. I tried to use a longer whitleine endlink but that one gave weird extreme bar angles. The FP trackbar is so lame you have to disconnect the bar from the mounts to install the upper end of the link then reinstall the bar.

It is possible that I can solve this problem when I build my custom endlink which can get me the clearance I need. I really want to use the FP front bar with the matched FP rear bar. I'm not sure I can pull this off. Of course if you never upgrade to coilovers then you will not have to worry. I'm 90% sure the FP350S uses coilovers as a factory racecar. Ford knows all us serious trackers uses coilovers. Yet somehow Ford engineers did not even consider that or the FP rear bar would be designed like the stock PP1 bar just thicker with an extra hole.

 

[Roadway 5.0]

Rear bar is very simple, the front isn’t too bad. Here are my install notes (with pics) for the front bar:

https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/th...cted-busted-oem-pp-bushing-a-surprise.141151/

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