Anti Sway Bar Hellwig 55905
Couple of things-
It's hard to tell from just one picture, but the end links don't look vertical in that picture. Which is probably because the L-bracket isn't straight up and down relative to the LCA. Both of those things should happen, the L-bracket should be straight up and down, and the sway bar end links should be vertical, not canted at an angle.
The "glue" like grease is for polyurethane bushings. You have polyurethane bushings with that kit. Using "regular grease" is not what you want to do. Use the grease supplied, it's the right stuff for those bushings.
And, you paid $160 for a sway bar and are complaining they put a cheaper powdercoat on it? Hellwig has used that finish for forever. If you wanted a nice gloss black sway bar, Hotchkis makes them like that. They cost $314.
I've been running the 55905 on my Duster for a couple years now. It's a great, well made sway bar. The Hotchkis sway bar may be "prettier", but for function and cost the Hellwig is hard to beat. Here's a picture of mine, showing the vertical end link position. This is with a set of factory tabbed LCA's. You may need to adjust the length of the end links to get them to be vertical and the sway bar legs parallel to the ground, but that's what you want. That's also something that has to be done with the car at ride height.
Couple of things-
It's hard to tell from just one picture, but the end links don't look vertical in that picture. Which is probably because the L-bracket isn't straight up and down relative to the LCA. Both of those things should happen, the L-bracket should be straight up and down, and the sway bar end links should be vertical, not canted at an angle.
The "glue" like grease is for polyurethane bushings. You have polyurethane bushings with that kit. Using "regular grease" is not what you want to do. Use the grease supplied, it's the right stuff for those bushings.
And, you paid $160 for a sway bar and are complaining they put a cheaper powdercoat on it? Hellwig has used that finish for forever. If you wanted a nice gloss black sway bar, Hotchkis makes them like that. They cost $314.
I've been running the 55905 on my Duster for a couple years now. It's a great, well made sway bar. The Hotchkis sway bar may be "prettier", but for function and cost the Hellwig is hard to beat. Here's a picture of mine, showing the vertical end link position. This is with a set of factory tabbed LCA's. You may need to adjust the length of the end links to get them to be vertical and the sway bar legs parallel to the ground, but that's what you want. That's also something that has to be done with the car at ride height.
