Question about a sway bar

[BigGuy66]

Lifting the Spyder

I'm curious if most be have had the sway are installed by a dealer or if they do it themselves? I am a DIYer and only reluctant to lifting the Spyder; the rest looks to be very straight forward. I suspect one way would be to drive the vehicle up on ramps and then lift the rest of the way by means of floor jacks.

I am also curious about lifting the Spyder - for oil changes, adding sway bar, using a krickit on the belt, etc. How should it be lifted?

 

[papanorm]

There is a frame center channel that you can use to lift for checking belt tension, etc. it is located just in front of the rear shock. You might have to try a couple of time to get the balance point.


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[bcer960]

I'm curious if most be have had the sway are installed by a dealer or if they do it themselves? I am a DIYer and only reluctant to lifting the Spyder; the rest looks to be very straight forward. I suspect one way would be to drive the vehicle up on ramps and then lift the rest of the way by means of floor jacks.

I did mine a few weeks ago, and took the advise of others on this site.....



The whole process took under two hours. worked great.

 

[papanorm]

Now that's what I call industrious


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[JerryB]

Hi papanorm,

Re: I'm curious if most be have had the sway are installed by a dealer or if they do it themselves? I am a DIYer and only reluctant to lifting the Spyder; the rest looks to be very straight forward.

There is a video ( maybe more than one ) of how to install the sway bar. Also, BajaRon's instructions are sort of OK.

I did my sway bar install myself. I used the 'remove the frunk' method and found it to help. Removing the frunk is a little more work than just jacking the Spyder up and doing the install.

I have some of Randy's videos saved, so if you would like to see them just send me an email:

jerrybaumchen(at)gmail(dot)com

Jerry Baumchen

PS) Now that I think about it, here you go: http://www.spyderlovers.com/forums/...yder-Breakdown-Arntufun-Style-Updated-Version

Or here: http://www.spyderlovers.com/forums/...-Anti-Sway-Bar-install&highlight=sway+install

 

[papanorm]

That's great-Thank you Jerry.



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