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Ok, so I am ordering my 20-24mm adjustable RSB for my car and I already delt with the weak sway bar mounts, but not I need to find a way to make the stock endlinks stronger, or maybe going to some aftermarket units.

Has anyone experimented on the 1991 legacy endlink design? Right now I have some stiffer bushings in there, but I'd really like something better, and stronger that doesn't require welding...

I used the whiteline ones:



They broke in a few hundred miles. You should make your own with a heim joint and some bolts. Cheap, easy, better than poly, and probably more reliable.

whats a heim joint? Would I have to pull my control arm off? haha

what size swaybar did you have?

http://www.monstertower.com/HeimJoint.htm

You don't have to remove the lateral links.

20mm

ahhh I see, if you said rod end bearing or spherical bearings I would have known, didnt know they were also called Heim joints.

I still dont know how to attatch it to the lateral link though. Should I just try to find some Energy Bushings or some other stiff urethane bushings?

Okay

What I would do is get two rod ends, and a small shaft, connect the rod ends to each side of the shaft, then connect one end to a bracket that will bolt through the hole in the lateral link. Like this:


Except both sides have rod ends. Envision the left part as having a rod end and connecting to the sway bar, and the right side going through the lateral link.

I see, I was thingking about that but I never thought of just bolting it to the lateral link, I kept thinking "weld it weld it!" That should work, I can get all the stuff from my brother's work, I'll take some pictures when I have built the to endlinks and installed them.

I've tried welding in several different areas of suspension... It makes a nice brittle point for something to break...
Best Luck with yours.

THAWA wrote:I used the whiteline ones:



They broke in a few hundred miles. You should make your own with a heim joint and some bolts. Cheap, easy, better than poly, and probably more reliable.

That's because they're installed wrong. The washer needs to be on the other side of the endlink to keep the bushing in place.

Edit: hello old thread

jamal wrote:That's because they're installed wrong.

jamal speaks the truth. Whiteline supplies them with rear bars spec'd for BC/BF Legacies so they only have to make one type of bar even though Subaru changed over to the C shaped endlink design in '92 or '93.

I installed the whitelines when I installed the adjustable rear sway bar. They have been working very well for over 15,000 miles, plenty of agressive driving including some autocrossing. I think they are just fine, and if you are buying a whiteline bar, you'll get them for free. Can't beat that.

Hmm....I looked at some pics of my old ones, and it doesn't appear that I installed the washer on the outside....

However looking at the pics of the part when I was selling them....there's a washer there....

Wonder if I fixed it later.....oh well.