Has anyone else managed to bend theirs lol. I have their second version and had em on my car with hotchkis sways at the stiffest setting with Falken Azenis 615s and TRD Springs. Went to put em back on the car for this season of Auto-x.....and realized the rear ones were BENT.

So yea...waiting to see what dezod says.

 

I was going to get these! I don't think I want them if they bend this easily....

 

there was a thread like this before.. i think that one broke.

 

should've searched...my bad. /noob mistake

Equinox, if you go and look on the dezod website, they have a 3rd gen of them now that look a ton more beefy.

 

Really? I didn't know that. I will check it out. I hope Dezod fixes this for you by sending you a 3rd gen free of charge.

EDIT: yep, here is the link http://www.dezod.com/pd_dezod_motors...ompetition.cfm

 

Hmm were they installed correctly? not accusing just wondering...

cause that last thread where they broke off, it was a poor install..

 

I installed them as directed by dezod. So i think so....lemme search for my pics of them installed.
I understand what you mean...i thought i installed em properly. I preloaded the suspension and did my best to have the two bolts parallel. Damn...now that i look at it. That sort of looks bent at the bottom right there...and that was prior to driving on them....

 

Yeah, from that picture, where it connects to the chassis mount- seems to be bent...more than likely failed due to the install..

 

gone to check on mine****** (cringes..**)


2 mins. later... still good *whew*...

 

does not look like its installed properly...it should be perpendicular to where it is attached on the bottom. you might need more washers up where it connects to the sway bar.

 

someone should post a pics of a properly installed one

 

man...after a hard day of autocrossing today...i wonder what my stock endlinkes look like...

 

i havent heard yet of stock endlinks failed.. so with this said to be tougher it better be an install error to be bent like that

 

--gammatnt diy--

 

oh yeah at the bottom of his pic up there is right after he installed it and the bottom joint is already bending from the awkward angle/torsion...

 

after seeing kanundrums stock endlinks after many hard autocross days...yeah, they bend...alot! lol.

 

^^ good pics.. this one should spread and stickied somewhere just so everyone who gets these would know how it looks installed properly.. not sure if dezod has an installed pic on the website or their technotes

 

yeah i think they have pics on their website for their DIY...it's a pretty detailed/thorough process

 

ok well if you look at what they supplied me for bolts...they are nowhere near long enough to properly set them up. Btw at the time there were no instructions on their website. Also those pictured are the 3rd gen ones...not the 2nd gen ones like i have. Why did they change them....cause the 2nd gen was crap (waiting for Dezod to come in and at least offer me a discount on some 3rd gen ones )

 

The ones I posted are Progress's endlinks, the image was just for reference.

The one thing I can see is that the spacers are a lot thicker on the latest version compared to what you have.

Best of luck though on getting it all fixed.