Rear TRD Sway Bar Snapped!
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naw i noticed his a little flat and it looks a little like Cusco's but im sure he knows his car better than us and if he says they are TRD blues they probably are just old,faded,and dirty i guess. sucks bout that breaking OP this one of the best mods i have done for handling
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if it was how you described the whole rear would be done as the sway bar is up in the rear end and not easy to get to, to scrape.....almost impossible without ruining the car
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Years ago when trying to Slay the Dragon's tail road I noticed a clunking sound on the way home and the car felt looser. Took it to Hennessy Lexus of Gwinnett (the best dealer around) and I snapped the front TRD sway bar They had to fuse it back together and it was back to normal.
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Years ago when trying to Slay the Dragon's tail road I noticed a clunking sound on the way home and the car felt looser. Took it to Hennessy Lexus of Gwinnett (the best dealer around) and I snapped the front TRD sway bar They had to fuse it back together and it was back to normal.
#25
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I'm using the rubber bushings that came with my TRD's but they are showing signs of age. I was hoping to be able to put some polyurethane bushings in there to couple with the TRD sways.
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Mahn this is like 7-8 years ago... I found my install thread, 2002
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...-the-same.html
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...-the-same.html
#27
Years ago when trying to Slay the Dragon's tail road I noticed a clunking sound on the way home and the car felt looser. Took it to Hennessy Lexus of Gwinnett (the best dealer around) and I snapped the front TRD sway bar They had to fuse it back together and it was back to normal.
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Mahn this is like 7-8 years ago... I found my install thread, 2002
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...-the-same.html
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...-the-same.html
#29
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Keep in mind everyone. The reason you're snapping the TRD bar is because most of the suspension of everyone here is probably going to be on the softer side. This means the sway bar is going to be taking a HELL of a beating. Say for example you put the TRD on stock GS suspension. The car is going to have much less body roll, but guess what. The sway bars are solely taking on that load, and that's probably well beyond their designed strength. Now, say you couple that TRD bar with some stiff coilovers. Now you're distributing the body roll load across the coilovers and sway bars. Much less likely chance of breaking the sway bar in this case. The spring rate on my coil overs have always been around 18/16k front and 14/12k rear. I've never snapped any of my TRD sway bars.
The solution for those of you that prefer a softer suspension, don't get the TRD sway. Get something softer that will comply with the softer suspension you have. Yes you will lose some of the great TRD body sway reduction, but you won't be snapping sway bars.
The solution for those of you that prefer a softer suspension, don't get the TRD sway. Get something softer that will comply with the softer suspension you have. Yes you will lose some of the great TRD body sway reduction, but you won't be snapping sway bars.
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