Rear Tie Stabilizer Brace Bar Installation Help

Since I couldn't get an answer in the dead thread....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=008&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=180135742529&rd=1,1

Erm...heh where does this piece go? I jacked the car up and everything and the only place seems suitable....the rear tie bar didn't fit. Did I get the wrong part? The only place where it looks like it could go is close to the cambers.

EDIT- Here are actual pictures....I just figured out by turning the tie bar that it's adjustable and locks via a nut. The clasp/locking mechanism of the tie bar is very strange.

Please?

its supposed to connect on the  rear frame brace from the places where each of the lower camber arms meet. thats, as far as i know.

I may be way off but that looks like an upper strut tower bar and not a strut/sway bar.... I'm not super familiar with accord rear sway bars but that looks funky

You might be right...I haven't thought of that since the ad said "rear".

I have one of them on my Accord...it is not an upper strut brace. It connects on the underside of the vehicle, on the two bolts for the lower control arms.

It seems the bar isn't long enough for that though.

Where would it go? 17/18?

From that diagram...you would remove bolt 29 from both sides, and place the bar so you can thread the bolt back into the control arm through your part.
 
It's too dark right now...but tommorow I'll take a pic of my car so you can see where it is attached.

Thanks a bunch Shadow! 

Shadow, did you get a chance to get a photo of the tie bar?

here it is.. it's bigger than it looks..about 2 feet end to end.  Also remember my car is older, so it's smaller from side to side.




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Looks good.  How thick is your sway bar?

The bar is too long...see below.

Ok...I got some pictures of my undercarriage and an idea (maybe?) of where the bar would go.


^ Doesn't exactly fit too well....


^ Does the bar go where I have circled in red?

The last thing it could possibly be is it is a strut bar, but it attaches to either a single bolt on the towers on either side (which doesn't seem right at all), or it attaches to the bolts on the top of the shock itself (which seems even worse). Where did you get it?
 
My rear sway bar is 30mm in diameter, front is 35mm

It can't be a strut bar...

So my prediction was incorrect (placement is not right?)

This was where I got it: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&viewitem=&item=180135742529

I still have no clue where to put this item...

Have you asked the seller? 

He said it was either behind the seatbelt (umm no) or in the trunk (no.)

Gah....a waste of $50.

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Installing this or any rear tie bar is not an easy task. You must put the rear of the car on jackstands, remove the wheels, and the two bolts at the ends of the suspension control arms. What's worse is getting these bolts back in with the new tie bar; because of the force of the springs, the control arm becomes misaligned with respect to the holes in the chassis, making it impossible to insert the bolts. Here's how I solved this problem: First, use a jack directly under the end of the control arm, where you're inserting the bolt. This should allow you to get the bolt through the tie bar and the front of the chassis, and into the control arm. Now the control arm is twisted so it doesn't line up with the rear holes. So remove the jack, and place it under the control arm again, but under the point where the spring/shock attaches. Jack it up several inches, until you're able to (barely) push the bolt all the way through and thread it into the welded-on nut on the other side. Be careful here since that spring holds a lot of energy and can seriously hurt you if it breaks free of the jack.

Wow....Shadow...if you are still here....did you do all this work?

Anyways, I was thinking of puttin on a 22mm TSX rear sway bar on? Any conflicts?