» Site Navigation | | » Recent Threads | | looove 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 0 Replies, 2,012 Views | | | | | | 07-09-2012, 04:27 AM | #16 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Ft Defiance, AZ Posts: 686 | I just replaced both brackets and all the bushings on my car, you can get the brackets themselves from pelicanparts for $21 each IIRC __________________ 1999 BMW 318ti 2005 MINI Cooper S | | | 07-02-2013, 06:27 AM | #17 | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Calgary Posts: 12 | This an amazing thread. I need to do all this to the right sway bar support/mount which has rusted and cracked. What bolts are used to hold the clamp to the support. Size and grade please? These are not listed in Pelican Parts. Did you mount the clamp to the support/mount with a bushing in it and hold this assembly up into place to get it in alignment before tacking the mount/support to the frame with a couple of small welds? | | | 07-02-2013, 04:22 PM | #18 | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Calgary Posts: 12 | Welding After a couple of tack welds I would remove the bushing clamp and do a proper weld of the support to the frame to prevent damage to the bushing. Any worries about heating the frame too much? | | | 07-02-2013, 10:37 PM | #19 | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Calgary Posts: 12 | Bushings And how do you get new rubber or urethane bushings on the Sway Bar over the big tabs on the ends of the sway bar? Thanks! | | | 07-03-2013, 07:03 AM | #20 | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Calgary Posts: 12 | I see looking at pictures of the bushings that they split to go around the sway bar. Also that the mount should have a stud coming out of it and a nut holds the bracket/clamp over the bushing. I do not see the weld on mounts in RealOem. They are in PelicanParts but it would be nice to get them at my local dealer and be able to show what I mean with a picture. Anyone else see them in real oem? | | | 07-03-2013, 08:20 PM | #21 | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oxford, Ohio Posts: 868 | | | | 07-04-2013, 07:40 PM | #22 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Portland Or Posts: 2,666 | You can also cut out the old weld a box patch over the gap and bolt a aftermarket sway bar support on there that wont rust... Dave __________________ Dave - PDX 1995 318ti - Active Black and Tan. 2005 330xi - Mtech 1 - 6spd - Orient Blue/Black | | | 07-13-2013, 08:47 PM | #23 | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Calgary Posts: 12 | sliding bushings over swaybars?? i thought i had answered my own question about this but i think the bushings are not in fact split and have to be slid over and along the sway bars to the correct position. The urethane PowerFlex bushings certainly appear to this way. Can anyone tell me how getting bushings on the sway bars is achieved please? The tabs on the ends of the sway bar look like major obstacles to this fitment issue. | | | 07-19-2013, 07:12 PM | #24 | Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Lake in Wisconsin Posts: 67 | And use greatstuff... This seems like a kind of 5hitty design to me. The original and the replacement brackets have openings on both sides of the frame of just a few mm, but enough to collect and fill w/ debris and lead to corrosion and then failure. It is real common problem here in the rust belt. I had a local body shop replace the supports for me and then I filled them w/ greatstuff (the expanding foam) to prevent 5hit from collecting in there, and finally swapped in the 26mm front bar and poly bushings. | | | 04-23-2014, 01:51 AM | #25 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Minneapolis Posts: 1,587 | Mine just fell out. Ordered the new support piece to weld in. Last edited by CirrusSR22; 04-23-2014 at 02:05 AM. | | | 07-28-2014, 12:07 AM | #26 | Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Sioux Falls, SD Posts: 33 | I spent way too many hours yesterday tearing out the old mounts on my daughter's Ti. I've got about 10% of the right-hand mount left, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to get it out without removing the AC compressor; the pulley is too close to the edge of the bracket to get much for tools in there for removal. Anybody have any tips on getting the job on that side? | | | 01-25-2015, 03:10 AM | #27 | Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Chicago Posts: 82 | been drifting in the snow too much and didn't realized how rusty they were and today, i took it for an hour drive to a town and heard some clunking noise from the right front ...............and was like wtf? jumped on my front end and it wasn't the strut so when i got home, i took a look at it and the sway bar mounts were rusty and the right one broke..only holding on one nut. So yeah! going to order these in a min or two from : http://parts.bmwofsouthatlanta.com/ 41118151121 41118151122 | | | | | Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | |
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