Racingline Endlink Flew Off!!!!! :(

[Ranga14]

So I went in to get my new Stillen rotors and pads put on and they called me in and showed me this...





My endlink somehow unscrewed itself and flew off my swaybar!

[IBCoupe]

I think you should retrace your footsteps and look for it.

[johnnir3volution]

you just got jacked!

[duffman8189]

Same thing happened to me and i have RL endlinks...wtf:/ I just ended up ordering new ones.

[Ricko]

Like I have posted before. Raceingline hardware sucks!!! You need to go to lowes or home depot and get new hardware.

[downedzephyr]

funny how this thread is months old and racingline hasnt said anything yet

[RicerX]

Wow. Good to know the nuts and bolts I had to buy from lowes were better to install my y-pipe than the nuts and bolts I NEVER GOT from racingline hahaha

[Ranga14]

Not having nuts and bolts don't bug me that much. Cheap enough to buy at the store, no big deal.

[Racingline]

funny how this thread is months old and racingline hasnt said anything yet

Never saw it until now..

The hardware supplied is fine. The issue comes down to how you install it. Most people only glance at the instructions and carry on, resulting in lost bushings

Normally when you tighten a nut there is a metal to metal surface bond/interference for the parts you are installing, when you do the final turns to torque the nut the thread between the nut and bolt actually stretch slightly. This is what helps create the tight seal.

Because the endlinks have bushing blocking the metal to metal bond you can not get the threads to stretch and thus forming a tight seal. resulting in the nut backing out and eventually falling off. NOW this is why there is a second nut, 2 nuts= metal to metal. The problem arises when people see this and don't read or follow the instructions.

What many people have done is simple tighten one nut, then tighten the second one down on top of the other. Doing this does absolutely nothing. In the instructions it says to tighten both as mentioned above, but then using 2 wrenches, loosen the first nut while tightening the second nut. This will cause the threads between the nuts and bolt to stretch and thus create a near permanent bond

[Racingline]

As for the OP to have an endlink look like that, likely the above tightening issue occurred and I can tell you most certainly that they were installed in their shortest possible state ( which is fine), but that the OP tightend the Left hand threaded nut the wrong way and made it tight to the head of the rod end instead of the black turn buckle meaning the turnbuckle was always loose and was rotating. When the bushings let go there was nothing stopping the endlink from vibration to the point where it unthreaded itself and fell off.

All hardware supplied was always at a minimum 8.8, but since about 1.5 yrs ago all hardware is 10.9 or btter

[Ranga14]

As for the OP to have an endlink look like that, likely the above tightening issue occurred and I can tell you most certainly that they were installed in their shortest possible state ( which is fine), but that the OP tightend the Left hand threaded nut the wrong way and made it tight to the head of the rod end instead of the black turn buckle meaning the turnbuckle was always loose and was rotating. When the bushings let go there was nothing stopping the endlink from vibration to the point where it unthreaded itself and fell off.

All hardware supplied was always at a minimum 8.8, but since about 1.5 yrs ago all hardware is 10.9 or btter

I had a shop do the install so I cannot comment on what they did but that was back in November 2009. Since then I paid for the replacement from you guys and you got it to me and it's back on and secure. I don't fault RacingLine for this. I realize it was an install issue.

[el_blacky06]

add another one onto this issue. the driver rear endlink flew out and i realized it when i took a hard turn on the fwy. it seemed like the sway bar wasant tight enought. i found out the same week after i got brand new tires installed just a couple a weeks ago

[RicerX]

thanks for checkin this out, racingline.