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Old 07-23-12, 08:22 PM
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Default Anyone else have noise issues with Sikky rear sway bar?

Just wondering it seems like it clunks every time I make a turn going around 5-10mp I think it's the end links where they can pivot on the metal ball as it compresses it changes direction clunking as it does so?

Any recommendations? Add more grease did I do something wrong?

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Old 07-24-12, 04:27 AM
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I have had no isses with mine, i used lots of lube on the bushings and pre set the end links as directed
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check your endlinks...other than that I don't know what to tell you.
Old 07-24-12, 07:32 AM
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I have a similar noise coming from the same area on my stock suspension. Sometimes it comes from the left rear, sometimes it comes from the right rear. All at 5 mph or so. I took mine to the dealer and they couldn't find anything wrong. But I think it's the end links too. It's really starting to annoy me.
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Whats the difference between the FSport one and this. Or let me ask it this way, what is a comparable setting on the Sikky bar compare to the 1-setting FSport? Any idea? Thanks.
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Posts on this subject somewhere here say setting 1 out of 3 on the Sikky is comparable to the Fsport bar.

The question to you is do you need a stiffer setting i.e. you intend to track with wider width tires and thus subject the car to more G forces.
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^^ Thanks bud.
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I have the same problem with my sikky sway bar and my guess is they didn't put enough grease on the bushings or didnt setup the end links right...
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Speaking of bushings, is it worth to buy aftermarket bushings like these when installing new sway bar? Is it more rigid = better? http://usa.auto-style.jp/?pkey=item_info&
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^^^ That's a good question. I'm wondering the same thing. I was thinking of getting better bushings for the stock sway bar. But I wonder what that would do - if anything at all.
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did you guys greased or lube up your bushings?
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Originally Posted by PurduePete
Speaking of bushings, is it worth to buy aftermarket bushings like these when installing new sway bar? Is it more rigid = better? http://usa.auto-style.jp/?pkey=item_info&
Considering the softness of the LCA bushings, it wouldn't hurt to put a stiffer bushing in the swaybars. They're probably the same durometer as the ISx50 bushings, and focused on NVH, not performance.
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The F-Sport bar comes with stiffer bushings. I assumed the Sikky bar came with stiffer bushings as well, is this not the case?
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Yea Sikky bushings are much harder.... I am going to tinker on the bar this weekend and add more grease
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Let us know if that solves it...have yet to have any noise issues with mine.


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