Steering stabilizer fitting trouble

[longlivenintendo]

Well, I managed to get her on backwards today. Didn't take too long and I was more able to easily get her in there when coming from the side than underneath. Only problem is that because of the tie rod I can't get a torque wrench in there to tighten her to 50 lbs. I can get the other end to 50lbs nit I basically just tightened her till I felt she wouldn't go anywhere. That said I could still turn her more so I'd like to be able to get it to 50. Any suggestions on how to get in that tight space? I could try an elbow but I think I was having a same issue. Is there a short 18 socket out there? That would do it

 

[longlivenintendo]

Ordered a "stubby" 18 mm gonna give that a go

 

[BigAL07]

Don’t worry about that torque business ol buddy. Tighten her up and then give her one more ump”’ and call her good.

 

[longlivenintendo]

The "stubby" socket came today. Worked perfectly and was a breeze. It definitely needed tightening down. You can see how it made enough room to fit in there between the tie rod

 

[printerjohnnie]

Well! I just wanted to quickly fit my stabilizer on today but it proved hard to fit in the spacer on the passenger side. I banged away, used pliers to try to open it a bit, used a jack to see if I could push it through but no go. I'm thinking the metal center is hold me up and it would be nice to have a just rubber grommet center like my old one to fit it in better. Anybody got any suggestions ? I know it's just a stabilizer and not super important but I think it'd be nice to have it back on

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Try the other end doesn't matter which way it goes in sometimes one end is larger than the other

 

[printerjohnnie]

Well! I just wanted to quickly fit my stabilizer on today but it proved hard to fit in the spacer on the passenger side. I banged away, used pliers to try to open it a bit, used a jack to see if I could push it through but no go. I'm thinking the metal center is hold me up and it would be nice to have a just rubber grommet center like my old one to fit it in better. Anybody got any suggestions ? I know it's just a stabilizer and not super important but I think it'd be nice to have it back on

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Try the other end sometimes the ends are a different size doesn't matter how you mount it

 

[longlivenintendo]

Try the other end sometimes the ends are a different size doesn't matter how you mount it

Try the other end sometimes the ends are a different size doesn't matter how you mount it

Yup that's how it worked in the end