I removed my rear sway bar to install the SSM lowers and cannot get my sway bar back on. I had a larger aftermarket rear swaybar and a borrowed original from a friend. No luck with either. Is there a trick to the installation?

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no trick, they don't fit and you don't want to force it. Do a search I think some guys ended up cutting and welding.

I've owned two cars that I installed SSM's on and reused the stock swaybar.

With my SSM Lowers and 7/8" Rear bar is was an EXTREMLY tight fit but i did it with a little bit of playing with it. No idea how tight yours is but i was able to get two holes across from eachother but not the others just had to pry on it a bit.

O.K. guys well I'll try it again this weekend. Which two bolts did you put in first?

I could not get one on mine either. I ended up dumping the SSM bars and putting a sdet of Hotchkis arms on it, then it fit like a glove.

The holes on the SSM bars are a bit forward of the stock holes. This makes them closer together. I had to grind my 1" bar to make it fit. I borrowed a 1-3/8" bar to try and it will require taking almost a 1/2" off the length. I don't know why SSM did this. They have to be aware of the problem since they have been making these arms for many, many years.

I called SSM and asked about this issue. They told me "You don't need the stock sway bar with our lift bars"

And yet they put holes in them???????????? Maybe they are for pretty flashing lights.

For now I'm just going to leave it off. I've been driving the car almost daily and I haven't noticed any handling issues without it. And the car really hooks with the Jegs SSM bars.

Thanks for all of the feedback guys.

I just forced it. Mine was about 1/4" too long, but with a little grinding and some creative tweaking, I got it wedged in there.

I can't believe they'd tell you that you don't need one, when the directions repeated using the sway-bar several times graemlins/clonk.gif

I used them without a swaybar, decided to add a swaybar,then took it back out, I could tell no difference and there was no improvement in 60ft times.

Thanks all for the replys. Rapid - that was what I was hoping to hear. I'm leaving it off.

Thanks again.