Well the wait is over. I got my Hotchkis sway bars today and of coarse I ran right out to my driveway to put them on. I'll get right to the point and tell you that doing it without a lift (on jack stands with a foot and a half of clearance) and by myself was hard as hell. So hard in fact that my poor xB is still sitting outside on "jack" stands waiting for someone to "jack" my rims. Nice of me to take all the work out of for them.

Anyways, I ran out of light and had to call it quits for the day. Here's the problem. I got the front Hotchkis sway in there (BTW I had to use my feet to pull down the steering rack from the engine mount and maneuver the stock sway bar with my hands). However, now I can't get all the freaking holes ( make that damn ____ing holes) to line up. It's always the little things. Just when I'm thinking all I have to do is zap the bolts back on there and the front sway is done, the holes won't line up and I'm kinda screwed. What to do?

I tried putting a jack under the car and putting a little pressure on front control arm to see if that would get the holes to line up but no luck. Anyway, I'm able to get most of them in no problem and its only four bolts that are off my about 5mm, but they aren't moving at all. Any suggestions would be very, very, very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

better take it to a shop...its dangerous to do the front....

 

lol, too late for that now though.

I know I saw a thread on this.. it included a tip on the front install (more than "whoops, you're screwed" I think).

 

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...601&highlight=