i have a 2011 gt with eibach adjustable swaybars, because my stock bar was make noise. it's been 4 years since with no issues.
i haven't been on top of lubing the bushings, and lately things have been banging hard in the rear suspension. i went in to the shop and the bushings for the rear bar are so bad one of them had split apart and the bar was making contact with the enlink.
the mechanic also noted that judging from all the scoring and wear done by the bushing on the swaybar, there has been a lot of lateral movement, almost 1/2 of side to side play on both sides of the bushing in the endlink. because of this it has picked up a lot of road crap off the bar and probably contributed to this failure of the bushings... is this normal?
i've since replaced it with the stock swaybar until i can figure out what to do and i'm back to this again:
https://youtu.be/rMoXVLNS--A
which the dealer says it's normal.
i still have the front eibach swaybar on the car, which is doing just fine. i was expecting understeer, but i've not expericened anything...? someone joked that i should just take off the rear one completely and see what happens lol... not.
what options are there for me? do they make aftermarket endlinks or better bushings for the oem rear bar? or is it best to find out if eibach sells replacement bushings and start over again?
this is all i could find online, but i'm not sure if it will bring on more NVH and they don't have any grease fittings like BMR does (but they only offer it for the v6 not gt) http://www.steeda.com/steeda-heavy-duty-mustang-rear-endlinks-555-1060/
i haven't been on top of lubing the bushings, and lately things have been banging hard in the rear suspension. i went in to the shop and the bushings for the rear bar are so bad one of them had split apart and the bar was making contact with the enlink.
the mechanic also noted that judging from all the scoring and wear done by the bushing on the swaybar, there has been a lot of lateral movement, almost 1/2 of side to side play on both sides of the bushing in the endlink. because of this it has picked up a lot of road crap off the bar and probably contributed to this failure of the bushings... is this normal?
i've since replaced it with the stock swaybar until i can figure out what to do and i'm back to this again:
https://youtu.be/rMoXVLNS--A
which the dealer says it's normal.
i still have the front eibach swaybar on the car, which is doing just fine. i was expecting understeer, but i've not expericened anything...? someone joked that i should just take off the rear one completely and see what happens lol... not.
what options are there for me? do they make aftermarket endlinks or better bushings for the oem rear bar? or is it best to find out if eibach sells replacement bushings and start over again?
this is all i could find online, but i'm not sure if it will bring on more NVH and they don't have any grease fittings like BMR does (but they only offer it for the v6 not gt) http://www.steeda.com/steeda-heavy-duty-mustang-rear-endlinks-555-1060/
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