Eibach sway bar install cost...front and rear?

[LordKOTL]

My buddy and I used this setup to get to it working from the center of the car instead of from the outside of the car. Once we realized tighten/loosen was reversed due to the way we had it hooked up to the tite-reach it didn't take very long.

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I had the ratchet extender, just not the extra wobbles and whatnot. Thanks!

What I'm "hearing" is that it's not as straight forward as I might think? Son of a!! I've been searching the webs for suspension folks here in town... reading reviews and such. I guess my biggest concern is finding the right price annnnd then they screw it up. I'll get it figured.

It is straightforward in what you need to do; it's just this one bastard bolt that is very hard to get to:


Which I had to pry up the hose on the right and snake a ratchet extender in to try to get a socket onto the bolt on the front of the swaybar mount, and the same when installing the eibach, but like @Volfy said the Eibach mount has webbing so you got even less room to work with.

That was what took the most time for me; the rest was a cakewalk.

Mine was done front & rear in 2 hours by my dealer, they allow 1/2 hour for the front & 1.5 hours for the rear.
As for accessibility it would definitely easier with the car up on a hoist.

My car was up on a small lift so I had a lot of room underneath. I tried from underneath but it looks like the tools I had were not enough.

That wrench that @Snowwhite or the setup @bfglitch has might have made it easier.

 

[bfglitch]

Yeah I've heard the horror stories of the Eibach bracket making it that much more difficult. The Ark has a flat bracket similar to the OEM. Sounds like the Whiteline is the same way according to Volfy.

 

[ScottM]

Soooo...I went to a shop with good reviews, but not specific to suspension. Waited for about 30 minutes to have them give it a look for a quote. The guy jacks up the front and says "This is just a replacement for the front, no worries". I then said, "like I said, I'm doing the front and rear...the rear doesn't have an original sway bar." He then says "I gotta talk to my boss." He returns and says they can't do it, but the guys next door (custom truck shop) might be able to do it. Dude comes out and asks what's what. I show him the Eibach's in my trunk and tell him I need these installed front and rear. He says "Let me go inside and look these up and I'll let you know." He comes back out and says "It looks like the rears are a pain, so it'll be $400 total, but I can't do them today." Long story short, I got an appointment for next Friday. I mean he had some pretty good looking trucks out front and I saw their shop...they gotta know what they're doing! Right??

 

[Snicklefritz]

^^^ That's still too high, but not ludicrously high. And your description of the shop is confidence inspiring. See if you can share some of the ideas on the forum with him, to help him speed the work up instead of "a pain". He might be able to knock some of that $400 off.

 

[ScottM]

^^^ That's still too high, but not ludicrously high. And your description of the shop is confidence inspiring. See if you can share some of the ideas on the forum with him, to help him speed the work up instead of "a pain". He might be able to knock some of that $400 off.

Yeah, I think I'll share with him some of whats here. He didn't have that crinkle face look about doing it. Almost the "been there done that sort of thing before" look and talk. And he didn't quote the book rate to it, so I felt good about that part. We'll see, but way better than the $700 I was quoted.