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Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

Its a 14mm nut that screws onto the strut bolt.
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

To keep the seatbelts from getting sucked into the retractors, you can use Vise Grips. Before you ever unbolt the retractors, pull the seatbelt out at least a foot (to play it on the safe side), then clamp a set of Vise Grips (or similar apparatus), and it'll keep the belt from getting sucked in.
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

as far as the front strut goes. i know the RRM bolts on to one bolt, but i've seen other struts that bolt on to all three....is this an advantage over the RRM somehow?
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

I know this is probably a dumb question, but will installing front and rear strut bars void any type of warranty on the car? and another thing, is there any difference or advantage in using certain brands or types of strut bars over others?

Thanks. :3_saai:
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

carbontib said:
Just a TIP, If you go the way of removing the rear seatbelt retractors .....DO NOT let the seatbelts move into the retractors more than where they would be when mounted. Once the belts go past the brake inside the retractors they will not release. I found this out the hard way and had to have my dealership take apart my backseat and rear seatbelt retractors. ....this cost me $
Well I guess I should have read further down in this DIY, because I let the seat belts retract back on the passenger side. Does anyone know how to release the locking mechanism? I do not want to have to take it to the dealer. I'll check the Hyundai Service Web site also.

Thanks
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

donnschroe said:
Well I guess I should have read further down in this DIY, because I let the seat belts retract back on the passenger side. Does anyone know how to release the locking mechanism? I do not want to have to take it to the dealer. I'll check the Hyundai Service Web site also.

Thanks

Just keep playing with them and when they are at the right spot, they will release. That is how I got mine back out.

Clarke
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

03silvergt said:
Just keep playing with them and when they are at the right spot, they will release. That is how I got mine back out.

Clarke
Hey thanks for the tip I got them both retracted, pretty easy after I just stopped swearing. Anyway here's a detail of my ARK rear strut bar. I used a 1 3/4" black desk gromment for to finish the trim and cut a 2" in black rubber washer tand placed it in back of the grommet o block of any light.
 

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Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

donnschroe said:
Hey thanks for the tip I got them both retracted, pretty easy after I just stopped swearing. Anyway here's a detail of my ARK rear strut bar. I used a 1 3/4" black desk gromment for to finish the trim and cut a 2" in black rubber washer tand placed it in back of the grommet o block of any light.

Awww, your ice scrapper looks so cute jammed in next to your sub. =)

This DIY is excellent. I don't know if I'll have the money to pick up the front and rear at the same time, but it's definitely happening soon with the front.

-Max
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

So if I dont have a circle saw what shouold I use instead?
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

GDL said:
So if I dont have a circle saw what shouold I use instead?

Go buy one... you can get the cheapest one to be found and it will do a nice job as the panel cuts easy. Trying to use anything else... well, it will probably look like **** when done.

Just my opinion...

Clarke
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

question for the rear bar, at the closest point, how far away is it from the back of the seat?

i have 2 amps and a cap mounted on the back of my rear seats, and i want a rrm rear strut bar, but i dont know if its gonna fit with my equipment in there.
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

what does "Tourque on the nuts is....29-37 Lb.ft" mean? does that mean i have to apply that much torque in order to tighten the nuts?

sorry, i'm not really familiar with a lot of hand tools
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

If you have a torque wrench , highly recomended, you set the wrench to about 34 ft pounds and keep tightening the nuts til you hit that much on it. It basically means how tight you are making the nut.
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

I went to Lowes to get a circle saw, and, I guess the only kind they make is the kind that goes on the end of a drill? I don't have a drill, so if there's another kind that doesn't require power tools, that would be nice.
 
Re: DIY: RRM Front and Rear Strut Bar Install

Just installed both. You do NOT need to take off the rear seatbelt reactors. My extension and ratchet did just fine. The front took me 5 minutes, the rear with cutting and moving the sub probably took 20-30 minutes at the max.
 
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