I just had my ebay TBE installed, and noticed the ebay downpipe is very close to the tie bars. Its about 1/4 of an inch from touching it. Has anyone had an issue with the downpipe hitting the tie bars? Anyone using spacers?

 

Just get a couple of size match washers from home depot and call it the day

 

i have the washers and it fits fine, i also had to put some heat wrap on the area where the dp gets very close to the diff.

 

What about longer bolts? Know the thread pitch?

 

Washers. Longer bolts wont do anything because you still gotta tighten it down and resulting to the same issue.
Use washers between the frame and tie bars NOT between tie bars and bolts.

3 to 4 washers should be good. Give or take depending on how much of a gap you need between tie-bars and downpipe.
hope that helps

 

Your best best would be to take the center bolt off of the rear tie bar (I believe) and take it into the hardware store with you. Use that bolt to get size up 10 washers, 2 for each of the 5 bolts and as said above put them between the tiebars and frame. You shouldn't need longer bolts unless you do spacers. With washers you should be fine.

 

Ah ok cool. I didnt take a look at the bolts myself yesterday when you had them out and didnt know if they were long enough. Sweet. I drove around a bunch last night & dont think I noticed anything unusual, but I always rather be safe than sorry!

 

What you really need is longer bolts AND spacers...mine came real close to rubbing but still no prob's

 

call rmr and get their k-brace. It will solve your problem and help alot more than the stock tie bars in stopping the subframe from flexing in the turns.