Addco/ENS problem

[Trouper]

Well, I developed a "thump" in the front end in the last few days, so I crawled under my 99 to take a look. I was extremely upset to find that my ENS greasable bushing mounts (holding up my front Addco bar) had bent drastically. I have put about 1500 miles on the car since the upgrade, and am pretty pissed that the ENS stuff didn't hold up and bent. It looked like the sway bar had dropped about 1/4 inch, causing the mounts to bend down, and then started to "thump" going over bumps due to the 1/4 inch gap from the bushing to the frame. I baby my car, and have never done any rough driving, so if normal driving caused this, I am perplexed. (All mounting nuts and bushings were installed and torqued to specs and were still in place and correctly torqued today.) Has anybody else had trouble like this? (I know, I have spent the last couple of months saying how great the Addco/ENS stuff is, but I am now leary of the ENS stuff.) I have since replaced the mounts with the ones provided by Addco when I bought the sway bar and their poly bushings.


Thanks for your time...

John "Trouper" Troup

[FordNut]

Well, I developed a "thump" in the front end in the last few days, so I crawled under my 99 to take a look. I was extremely upset to find that my ENS greasable bushing mounts (holding up my front Addco bar) had bent drastically. I have put about 1500 miles on the car since the upgrade, and am pretty pissed that the ENS stuff didn't hold up and bent. It looked like the sway bar had dropped about 1/4 inch, causing the mounts to bend down, and then started to "thump" going over bumps due to the 1/4 inch gap from the bushing to the frame. I baby my car, and have never done any rough driving, so if normal driving caused this, I am perplexed. (All mounting nuts and bushings were installed and torqued to specs and were still in place and correctly torqued today.) Has anybody else had trouble like this? (I know, I have spent the last couple of months saying how great the Addco/ENS stuff is, but I am now leary of the ENS stuff.) I have since replaced the mounts with the ones provided by Addco when I bought the sway bar and their poly bushings.


Thanks for your time...

John "Trouper" Troup

I believe most of us used the mounts and bushings that came with the bars from Addco. No problems here.

[Trouper]

I did notice that the Addco mounts were slightly thicker than the ENS stuff. I was using the ENS greasable mounts, and don't know if they are thinner than the non-greasable ones, but they are definietly thinner than the Addco and stock mounts.

[Trouper]

UPDATE!
I emailed Addco over the weekend about this problem and today I got a phone call from Trey at Addco. He was very interested about my complaint, and wanted as much information as possible. He asked for some pics of the problems, and wanted me to let everyone know that Addco will do everything possible to fix this problem. Anyone else with the same problem can email him with observations/photos at: tech@addco.net .


Below are some pics of the Addco bar on my car.

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile.php?id=149486&toggle=fullsize&f=.jpg

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile.php?id=149487&toggle=fullsize&f=.jpg

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile.php?id=149489&toggle=fullsize&f=.jpg

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile.php?id=149492&toggle=fullsize&f=.jpg

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile.php?id=149493&toggle=fullsize&f=.jpg

Below are the bent ENS bushing mounts: (Yes... they are supposed to be flat on the bottom!)
http://www.supermotors.org/getfile.php?id=149490&toggle=fullsize&f=.jpg

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile.php?id=149491&toggle=fullsize&f=.jpg