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02-09-2009, 07:58 PM
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Drives: 08 sedan at Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: long island
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Do you HAVE to remove the wheels to install strut bar?
so i got my Gtspec strut bar, and from reading other strut bar installations, many remove the front wheels
when i had a nissan sentra - i didn't need to remove my wheels to install strut bar. just plopped it in my question is why do u need to remove it? some kind of technical thing? and do you have to thanks! |
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02-09-2009, 08:01 PM
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different car, different bar. i have not dont this yet but will in the next few days. i am waiting on the bar to arrive. from the looks of it you have to reach up there and feed a bolt through the wheel well and thread a bolt onto it too. it would be easier to remove the wheel from what it seems
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02-09-2009, 08:09 PM
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Drives: 2007 4 Door Yaris Join Date: Jan 2009
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why wouldn't you? You have to jack up the car(I'm pretty sure anyway) so its 8 lug nuts and you're done. I imagine they change the load on the suspension slightly having them off.
If the instructions say to take them off, I'd take them off. |
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02-09-2009, 08:20 PM
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02-09-2009, 09:00 PM
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Is it a strut bar, or a sway bar? Strut goes on top of the struts in the engine bay, sway bars go under the car. If its a sway bar, yea probably. If its a strut bar, hell no.
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02-09-2009, 09:47 PM
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02-10-2009, 12:41 AM
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You dont need to take the wheels off to install a strut bar...
If anyone is asking this question, you need to take your car to a shop for ALL your installs! |
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02-10-2009, 12:58 PM
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Drives: '08 Yaris Sedan, Aero Package Join Date: Oct 2008
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General consences is that one should un-load the suspension during strut bar installation.
This allows the bar to be adjusted to fit the uni-body's natural position.
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02-10-2009, 01:50 PM
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Drives: 08' Yaris RED Join Date: Feb 2009
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^exactly. basically all you do is.....
-open your hood -find nuts of top hats -take off nuts -put strut bar on -nuts back -close hood -test drive fyi, strut bars do minimal performance compared to sway bars ChinG |
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