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Hi Dave I have a sedan that was involved in a rear side collision and it damaged the long roll bar. I tried to repair it as best as I could and it helped for few miles of driving and then went back into its damaged position and made the usual clunking noise. At first I thought it was the sway bar links that needed to be replaced but then came to find out the sway bar was knocked out of position with the bushings.
I wanted to know if the bar and the links can be deleted and driven safely since I don’t want to spend the money on a new bar and mounting brackets. One of the screws plates that holds the mounting bracket sheared off when I went to remove the nuts.
Removing the rear anti-roll bar will affect the handling of the car. It will increase the tendency to understeer (significantly) and lower the responsiveness of the car to steering inputs. This is not necessarily unsafe, but you might not like the results. This will be noticed when cornering.
Dave
I ended up removing the sway bar and didn’t notice much difference in the handling to reinstall the bar at this point.
I have another question Dave. I’ve mentioned before that I wanted to be a project manager but now I’m doing things other then cars, but still involves the same principles. I wanted to ask you, you being an engineer, how do you pitch ideas to get it passed, without it being dismissed. I have met a fellow engineer from a local coffee shot and shot him some ideas about other engineering subjects but he’s gotten to a point where he won’t listen to new ideas.
Sorry to hear that your ideas are not being considered. Either your ideas are not technically valid (his POV) or he is just the wrong person for you to engage on the subject with. Did he tell you why?
Looking back, he probably wasn’t the right person and my idea just wasn’t feasible in his POV as you said. It was all in an informal and friendly setting but since he was an electrical engineer for very respectable companies, I wanted to run the idea through him anyways. I’m more of a generalist than a specialist which is what he was and I believe that was where the clash was.
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