Re: Anti-Rollbar Distortion?

[Don Hoefer <hoefer@eng.pko.dec.com>]

Keith

> Had a difficult time popping strut out of balljoint last
> weekend.  Seems that the anti-roll bar was placing a lot of
> outboard force on the strut.  Had to remove anti-roll bar to get
> em out.  Took a lot of brute force to  get the anti-roll bars
> back into place (not a whole lot - just me grunting and yelling a
> lot).  Shouldn't these things just slip into place.

I always have to unhook the anti-roll bar in order to pop the ball
joint out of the strut.  But the fun is not over then.  The Bentley
manual states that the anti-roll bar is installed correctly when it is
difficult to insert it into place.

Don Hoefer
'82 Coupe

Massachusetts, USA