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Volvoites,
Being a Front End Newbie, I finally, with the Boards help and a little creative cursing & thinking, figured out how to compress the new strut bar frame bushings a little easier in their new mounting brackets....
Here's how .....maybe someone can add this to the FAQ'
After the bar is already off the car...
I put the bushings (slit facing front) on the bar and in the brackets and bolted them together "off the car using" the braket hardware and the old nut off the top of the stut link to attach to the stubby sway bar frame mounting bolts.
This kind of pre loads it and compresses the frame bushings nicely into the mounting brackets ( keep slit in bushings facing towards front of car ....read that somewhere).
I left them that way over night.......it worked pretty well I was able to get them bolted up to the frame some what easily with only two arms.
I then with the wheels hanging off the ground and car safely on stands hung both bar ends over the upper strut links first.....make sure u go under what ever is hanging there( some tube or hose on passaanger side this helps support it a little as well) then lightly secure the ends on the strut links..... then unbolted the "pre loaded: brackets and lined up the frame brakets with the holes in the frame by sliding the bushings.
Time to struggle with the stubby bolts again. Put the back bolts in first (just easier) I did both side backs first then fronts.
If needed (I did) you can use bottle jack to compress the last backet to close it close enough to start the last bolts threads .
Then tighten up and deal with the strut link upper bolts tighten to the speciifed 42 mm or close to that space between top and bottom of washers.
Without the help of u guys here on the board and the resources available here my Virgin front end work would've never been possible.
I'm now versed in ball joints,strut inserts and bearings,tie rod ends, sway bar frame bushings, sway bar links, front strut rod bushings and control arm bushings.
Mark
1988 745 gle 165k w5spd The Silver Surfer"
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