Just a story that comes to mind ...
Bought coilovers for my Bora. Read that when you go 50+ mm lower than stock, the sway bar will hit the control arms.
Bought a new front sway bar to avoid that problem.
Went to central coast to put the coilovers in at a mates place, undid all the front suspension and dropped the struts out but couldn't get the sway bar out no matter what we did...
SO, we decided to drop the subframe as it was the only way in, this included detaching the steering box. Got the sway bar out.
Putting the new Whiteline bar in, it wouldn't fit anything. Even if I got it sitting in kind-of the right position, none of the bolts or links would connect.
At this stage its 5:30pm and we're almost out of light on a Sunday on a job that should have taken 3 - 4hrs tops.
We gave up well after dark and wheeled the car out onto the road for a towie, none of the steering was connected yet.
Got a train home, called Pedders the next day to get it towed and put back to stock.... Which they did and I got the train up to get it.
Seems we had the FWD sway bar, not the AWD one.
And .... as a kicker .... The swaybar rubbing problem is only a problem on the FWD's. We didn't need to change swaybars at all, let alone drop the subframe and steering.