Prepping the rear sway bar for the IRS installation

This update covers rear sway bar IRS installation.

This update covers prepping the rear sway bar for the IRS installation.

Related notes live on the Factory Five Cobra build hub.

rear sway bar IRS installation: Optional sway bars on the 25th Anniversary kit

First, there are a few items that are not part of the standard build manual. Also, the sway bars are optional components.

However, on the 25th anniversary car they come as part of the package.

From my reading on the forums, everyone stressed that you need to get the instructions from the FFR website.

Otherwise you will forget to include this as part of the IRS installation. Then you will be re-doing this part again.

Thankfully I remembered this while waiting on a few more parts to get the IRS installed.

Paint the mounts and trim rod ends

First step was to paint the mounting plates. Because they are plain steel, they need protection.

Then I had to trim the rod-ends.

Poly bushings and LCA tab clearance

Adding the poly bushings to the bar is super easy. Meanwhile, the bushings are split to make installation simple.

In other words, this is much easier than my prior swaybar work. For example, there you have to slide the whole bushing over the bar.

The last step was to mount the rod ends. However, I had to coax the tabs quite a bit on the lower control arms.

I used a long crescent wrench to open the tabs up. Still, that was not enough.

So I ended up grinding down the spacers to make them fit.

This process should have taken about 15 minutes. As a result of tight LCA tabs or wide spacers, the whole setup took about 1.25 hours.

Ultimately most of that time was OCD work getting the spacers just right.

Hopefully it will not be much longer to get the toe-arm adjusters and the front IRS mount sleeves.