Miata Mailing List: May 1998, Message #24

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On  1 May 98 at 0:47, LeanAngle1 <LeanAngle1@aol.com> wrote:

> 4 hours..the guy has got to be pulling your leg!!!...1/2 hr to 1
> hour max...and an hours is pushing it!!!!

Initially my reply was private, but since a small portion of it made 
it's way out into the miata.net airwaves...

On *my* car (a rolly polly M-edition) on the front, between the ABS 
and the A/C, and all the other stuff that is relocated from every 
other Miata that most instructions are written for, there is 
left about a 2"x2" opening, encircled by fairly delicate tubing and 
such, with which to extricate the entire front sway bar.  

I would pay money to watch somebody swap out just the front bar on my 
car, on the ground, with no air tools, in a half-hour and not damage 
anything.  I guess I still have a thing or two to learn.  

Oh, part of my 4 hours was learning that you *can* install the rear
bar backwards - that there is a right and wrong way to do it - I
also learned that the rear springs *heavily* impede getting on the
forward/outermost bolts on the rear sway.  I had to jack the body up 
to decompress the springs to allow the coils to move out of the way 
so I could even get the bolt in. 

yada yada, I could go on - but that's why it took *me* 4 hours 
(probably included cleaning up in that time, too)

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\/\/    ---->    Will Brown    ---->    '96M in Charlottesville VA

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