tarett swaybar stuff broke ..., anyone else had problems? Options

[SirAndy]

so on my way to the AX saturday i noticed a "clunk" sound from the frontend, like i had lost something.
i had this happen before, bolt came lose on the swaybar droplink, so i thought that was it ...

when i get to the AX site and change tires, i see the droplink hanging all weird so i take a closer look and the lower hime joint has broken. the thread just snapped off the joint.
i then continue to change the tire on the other side and it's exactly the same! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif)

both hime joints broke in the exact same location. that seems too odd to be coincidence.
i must have hit something *really* hard for that to happen, but i can't remember running over any bad potholes etc.

anyone else had problems before?
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif) Andy

[airsix]

QUOTE (john rogers @ Aug 4 2005, 11:28 AM)

Got me thinking that when I went to put the mounts on the A-arms for my race car someone (forget who) told me to align the bolt holes fore-aft and not crossways as Andy has his. Wonder if that makes any difference?(snip)

It IMHO makes all the difference in the world. Andy, this isn't meant as a jab, but I'll stake (what little there is of) my reputation on this statement - This failure has everything to do with the U-tabs being rotated 90 degrees from the original design. You eliminated one form of binding and unintentionally exchanged it for a worse one. In the stock orientation the control arm can move through it's entire arc without changing the angle of the heim joint pieces - The outer joint piece rotates around the axis of the through bolt. With the tabs rotated 90 degrees the angle of the outer joint piece to the axis of the ball changes dramatically as the control-arm moves. It wouldn't take very much control-arm angle change to bind and snap off the heim joints.
Since you changed the U-tabs to give more adjustment I think the root of this is recognizing that we're trying to get too much range of adjustment out of this swaybar. I think the solution is putting the U-tabs back in the stock orientation and living with less adjustment.

-Ben M.