A search for stabilizer bar didn't yield enough info so here's my question.

In the 94 gsr i just bought i found yesterday after crawling underneath that the rear stabilizer bar was the most rusted piece on the car. How important is this? The car seems to drive fine and I was hoping to wait until next spring before I replace it since I want to totally redo the suspension. The car seems to be well aligned.

thanks in advance,

Jeff

 

Rear stabilizer? If you mean the thin, kinda wiry bar that snakes between the two weels, that's the rear sway bar

I wouldn't worry at all. Even if, say, the bar snaps, you wont suddenly lose control and crash. You'd just have some odd suspension noise in the back and your car's handling would get sloppy.

If you want to replace it, though, Id look at the Comptech rear tie/sway bar combo. Top notch piece of equipment.

 

yes it is the rear sway bar. They were calling that the stabilizer bar in the haynes manual for accords.

Epoch, does the rear sway bar help with the "left and right" movement of the car that happens during turns?

sounds like i am better off waiting for when i redo the entire rear suspension and put in a quality sway bar.

thanks Epoch,

Jeff

 

theres no way it could be rusted enough to break or anything... its just surface rust. Don't worry about it. If it really bothers you, take it off, sand it down and give it a few thick coats of rust-oleum. :thumbup:

 

The sway bay helps make the wheels maintain uniform contact with the road, and gives more traction to the wheels under hard turning. A firmer sway bar decreases understeer while a weaker swaybar increases understeer. What I would do is look wait, and while doing the suspension, get the Comptech kit. It provides a lower tie bar for chassis stability, a thicker (and with adjustable firmness!!) swaybar, and the whole setup also serves as a subframe reinforcement to keep the swaybar from ripping itself off your car (Happens very frequently to cars that have put a firmer swaybar with no reinforcement).

I have one on the medium setting and I love it. It also helps the car manage the firmer springs also found in sport suspensions.

 

If you want to get technical, it's not a "sway bar." A fellow much smarter then I corrected me on this, don't worry. It can accurately be called either an "anti-sway bar" or a "stabalizer bar."

 

:blah: :chuckles:

True true.... You got me there h:

 

How about an "anti-ROLL" bar, since it contributes to roll stiffness, not sway.