Stabilizer Bar

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2018 Jaguar XE and 2017 Jaguar XE. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.

The stabilizer bar is fabricated from hardened steel. The stabilizer bar operates, via a pair of links, from their attachment to the lower control arm.

The stabilizer bar is mounted on the subframe's rear cross member and is attached with two, compression rubber bushes which wind up torsionally in operation. Brackets, which are pressed onto the bushes, are attached to the cross member with bolts. The stabilizer bar has steel crimped, 'anti-shuffle' collars positioned on the inside edges of the bushes. The collars prevent sideways movement of the stabilizer bar.

The stabilizer bar links have a ball-joint at each end, and are fitted with hardened steel washers pressed onto the ball-pins at both ends. The bottom ball joint is attached to the link at 78 degrees to the link axis. The ball-joint is located in a hole in the lower control arm and secured with the hardened steel washer on one side of the interface and a self-locking nut on the other. The top ball-joint is located in a hole in the end of the stabilizer bar and secured with the hardened steel washer on one side of the interface and the self-locking nut on other.