How to change Anti roll bar / stabilizer / drop link bar under 10 min

[laimis]

 

[MacKWT]

Very helpful indeed and encouraging for novices like me. Thanks.

 

[Andrew]

Thank you for the videos.

1. Please, please get yourself some traffic cones to give yourself some measure of protection/warning with regard to passing traffic.

2. Do you own a torque wrench?

Andy

 

[lfield]

1. Please, please get yourself some traffic cones to give yourself some measure of protection/warning with regard to passing traffic.

And a trolley jack or axel stands. I would not trust the scissor jack.

 

[Pinkythelabrat]

Thank you for the videos.

1. Please, please get yourself some traffic cones to give yourself some measure of protection/warning with regard to passing traffic.

2. Do you own a torque wrench?

Andy

There’s the warning triangle in the emergency kit.

I tend to work in even more dubious conditions at the roadside. In the dark. And the rain. Only one headphone and a hair trigger for leaping sideways required at all times.


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[laimis]

Thank you for the videos.

1. Please, please get yourself some traffic cones to give yourself some measure of protection/warning with regard to passing traffic.

2. Do you own a torque wrench?

Andy

ive been doing it on the street since i came here 15 years ago its fine, and i dont own a torque wrench, but its on the list one day to own one

 

[laimis]

And a trolley jack or axel stands. I would not trust the scissor jack.

i had a car slide off the scissor jack i was in a rush and just made more work for myself

 

[AndyP]

So having done this a few times and again at the weekend, what I will say is that it doesn't take 10 mins if the droplinks are knackered as the nut just spins the thread and you end up having to fight molegrips onto the other side of the bolt etc.

 

[laimis]

So having done this a few times and again at the weekend, what I will say is that it doesn't take 10 mins if the droplinks are knackered as the nut just spins the thread and you end up having to fight molegrips onto the other side of the bolt etc.

there is a flat bit for your spanner to put on the other side of the bolt to hold it and stop spinning, i had an impact so did not need to, although i was fighting the top bolt a little bit,

but just because i didnt soaked it in WD40 first

 

[AndyP]

I'm not sure that all have that, the ones I was doing had an allen socket on the end of the bolt, but that is virtually useless when the nut is FT. And of couse the bottom one you can only get a ring spanner on as it's too close to the wheel arch liner/undertray ....

 

[laimis]

I'm not sure that all have that, the ones I was doing had an allen socket on the end of the bolt, but that is virtually useless when the nut is FT. And of couse the bottom one you can only get a ring spanner on as it's too close to the wheel arch liner/undertray ....

yes you are right some have allen key at the front, i feel your pain bro

 

[Pelican]

When going over uneven terrain.....is this sound a sign to change droplinks?

 

[chubbybrown]

I thought you were going to put the stool under the car. The amount of times those Jacks slide is unreal

 

[bretti_kivi]

can we have droplinks added to the title, please? It is what they're called.

- Bret

 

[bretti_kivi]

droplink failure: clong with a turned steering wheel over a kerb / drop in the road. If it's happening when the wheel is straight, it's probably not the droplinks.

- Bret

 

[laimis]

When going over uneven terrain.....is this sound a sign to change droplinks?

sounds very similar yes

 

[laimis]

I thought you were going to put the stool under the car. The amount of times those Jacks slide is unreal

stool is for my old butt

 

[laimis]

can we have droplinks added to the title, please? It is what they're called.

- Bret

i think drop link is slang

can we have droplinks added to the title, please? It is what they're called.

- Bret

done

 

[bretti_kivi]

Original German is "Koppelstange". "Strut / Rod" is a poor translation; the original Audi translation is 'coupling rod'. Droplinks added in means that the thread should now be easier to find, also because it's the term that's generally used here, and I'm not convinced it's slang, just as lower control arm and wishbone generally refer to the same thing.

- Bret

 

[laimis]

Original German is "Koppelstange". "Strut / Rod" is a poor translation; the original Audi translation is 'coupling rod'. Droplinks added in means that the thread should now be easier to find, also because it's the term that's generally used here, and I'm not convinced it's slang, just as lower control arm and wishbone generally refer to the same thing.

- Bret

Kopel shtange ???