Changed the front drop links

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:12 pm

I changed the two front anti roll bars day

Â£24 inc VAT from GSF. The old one's where not very good condition.

The drive feels much better now. Much better on the corners and firmer streering

robkendall · Post by **robkendall** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:26 pm

betterv nick than mine dude.....the NSF ones just popped apart!!
luckily, its one of the first things i changed on the S, so ive got some that are a little under 12months old to put on the ES

make a shite load of difference if anyones thinking of doing it
rgrds
rob

catgroom · Post by **catgroom** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:32 pm

Mart,
I noticed that on the photos of your old ones,the bottom one in the pic has a kink in it.Did that one comeoff the drivers' side and should it be like that???

Feel silly asking really but mine was bent on drivers side when I took mine out to change them too.The new drivers side one was straight.Mine were also from GSF.

Hmmmm!

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:50 pm

lol, thats not the anti roll bar, its the drop links...but anyway, good idea to change. Kreg has new ones...gonna go onto lreg soon.

Ally · Post by **Ally** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:06 pm

Surely unless the ball joints on your link rods are f'ed new ones won't make any difference - any car I've had lets you know when they need done by a characteristic knocking when going over bumps or cornering.

Has anyone ever heard of an after-market anti-roll bar for the 480?

Eibach don't seem to do one and I haven't found any information from anyone else. I'm sure a beefier ARB would make cornering on standard springs much better whilst keeping more comfort over the bumps.

robkendall · Post by **robkendall** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:23 pm

hasnt mr catgroom recently posted something about arb dlinks, and a supplier?
25 of your finest english pounds per iirc?
rgrds
rob

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:58 pm

@ Groom, I bent it by accident when removing it. They should not be bent like the old one was.

@ John, You sure mate? Says anti-roll bar on the pay slip

MrE · Post by **MrE** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:02 am

yeh they're definately drop links Martin! The antiroll bar is the sprung steel bar that goes across the car. It is joined to the drop links each side and mounted on clamped rubber blocks to the body. As the body of the car rolls the motion is opposed by the antiroll bar twisting along its length much like a torsion bar.

I've done a bit of research on antiroll bars and poly bushes (give stiffer more responsive handling)... Haven't found any aftermarket antiroll bars, so if anyone has had better luck i would certainly be interested.

As for poly mounting bushes this was a similar result...No direct replacements and there is no universal ones that even come close! Oh yeh and if you wanna change the front antiroll bar, thats an engine out job pretty much! Mounting bolts are still impossible to get to!

robkendall · Post by **robkendall** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:16 am

heres the link.....i KNEW groomy had posted something!!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 03861&rd=1
they look third party/new....hgis description is 'equal to volvo'
look ok?
rgrds
rob

atex61 · Post by **atex61** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:33 am

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robkendall · Post by **robkendall** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:07 am

atex61 wrote:i sent him an email at least a few days ago asking if he had any more but he hasn't replied!

btw nice sig rob, im having fun trying to trick it! best so far is a bangladeshi host! still working on changing my os...

haha....nice one.....i found it easy to fool, but had the source code, so not that hard really!!
rgrds
rob