'92 Prelude rear stabilizer bar problem

Discussion in 'Prelude' started by David Kindred, Feb 11, 2004.

  1. I just replaced a broken rear stabilizer bar on my 1992 Prelude S. The
    old bar snapped in the middle. I'm not sure why, but I assuming it's
    just from wear (194K miles). I order a new one from a Honda dealership
    over the internet and it arrived in about a week. I'm trying to be a
    do-it-yourself mechanic, so I wanted to put the part on myself. It
    didn't look like it could be too hard. Since I didn't know I needed to
    hold the bolts on the stabilizer links steady with a hex wrench in order
    to take the old stabilizer bar's nuts off, I took out the stabilizer
    links as well as the broken stabilizer bar. On the new stabilizer bar,
    I noticed a yellow line that looked like it should line up with the
    center of the car, and 2 white lines on either side of the bar that
    should line up with the placement of the bushing brackets. These white
    markings matched the placement of the bushings on the old bar. When I
    installed the stabilizer bar with the bushings in this configuration and
    the yellow mark lining up with the center of the car, the passenger side
    stabilizer link would rub up against a part of the braking system
    attached to the body that has a metal line going in the bottom and a
    rubber line coming out the top. I could not leave it like this; hit one
    bump and I'd have lost my braking! After playing around with the
    positioning of the stabilizer bar, I ended up moving it about 3 inches
    toward the passenger side in order for nothing to be rubbing on either
    side of the bar or links. A hard turn to the left will still cause the
    link or bold connecting the link and bar to rub on this part.

    Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? Do I still need to do
    something?

    Thanks,
    David K
     
    David Kindred, Feb 11, 2004
    #1
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