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I had to Google the " Rod ends" but I now see what they are......
http://www.nfauto.co.uk/rod_ends.htm
Now this would look to be quite a good idea .
Does the bit of the anti-roll bar that goes through the centre hole in the Rod-end have to be machined accurately to be a tight fit ?
I seem to remember when I did mine that the anti roll bar had quite a rough finish.
The location of the ARB would be better but without the rubber bush I think there may be more road noise transfer ?
Cheers for now,
Tony.
Thanks Tony! I thought he was talking about making a track rod end fit and was having trouble visualizing how that would work!
I would say that that rod end you pictured would work great and shouldn't be TOO noisy in service since it will still be rubber mounted to the subframe (in this case I think poly would be a DISadvantage) BUT it would HAVE to be a CLOSE interference fit on the AR bar or the damn thing would rattle its (and your) brains out! The knocking you get from even slightly worn drop link joints on "moderns" is warning enough! The only drawback I can see is that the original design pemits the bar to move through the bush to a certain extent to account for differences in apparent length from suspension travel whereas this system wouldn't allow this movement (admittedly not large) and might put too much strain on the (not very strong) subframe clamps.
Steve