Step 4: Fit your strut tops to your car but don't do them up tightly (just finger tight). Make sure you get enough clearance around things and then test fit the bar itself to see if it's going to fit. Mine ended up being a bit too long but because of the design I was able to cut a bit off each end and also shorten the bolts that screw into it so that I was able to fit the bar properly.
Here I just hacksaw off a small portion of the end of the bar
And here I've shortened the bolt so that I can screw it in all the way
Once you've done this to both ends of the bar and both bolts you can see if you can mount it to the strut tops and check that it all fits.
Step 5: Just go over and check everything to make sure nothing is fouling and everything has enough clearance. Remember the engine will need some room to move while it's running so don't just give things 1mm of clearance. Also try shutting your bonnet and make sure you don't have anything pushing on it and stopping it from closing easily. If everything looks ok then take off the bar and properly tighten the nuts holding down the strut tops. If it looks like the hole in the middle of the tops needs to be bigger then widen it out with some grinding stones otherwise just bolt it down. Correct torque should be 27lb but I just did mine up bloody tight because I don't have a torque wrench.
Step 6: Once the tops are mounted properly you can adjust the bolts inside the bar itself until it is almost to short to fit between the strut tops. It should be quite difficult to feed the bolts through the eye of the tops and the bar but we want to be tight. Once you've done this tighten all nuts and bolts and check the bar isn't going to move.
Congratulations, you're done! Go and take it for a test drive and be happy knowing you saved a few bucks by doing it yourself
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