These things are great. Really straight forward install and they work wonders for wheel hop. Especially for those that don't have aftermarket LCA bushings.
Pretty much just undo the ball joints, remove a stud, drill a hole, and you're done. I made a howto on the install. There's pics where necessary. Click on any of the pics for fullsize versions.
1) Get car up on jackstands and remove the wheels.
2) Remove the LCA bolt closest to the engine. Really long 17mm bolt. Place Traction Bar bracket on and replace using stock hardware.
3) Unbolt ball joint from control arm. Should look like this when you get done.
4) Remove the stock stud for the ball joint. I used a hammer. It should be in there pretty good, but after some convincing it pops right out. You'll be replacing this stud with a longer bolt to make room for the traction bar bracket. (included with tbars)
Here's a pic of how the ball joint and Traction Bar bracket will line up.
The spacer shown in the pic goes on top of the control arm over the hole where the stud was.
Here's the bracket bolted onto the control arm
5) Now it's time to drill the hole for the other Traction Bar bracket bolt. This bolt is there to make sure the bracket doesn't slide around under load. Make sure your bracket is in place so the washers don't over lap each other. Then drill the hole thru the LCA. If you don't have the right size bit you'll have to open the hole up a little further. Make sure you remove the bracket before doing this so you don't damage it.
Pic of the hole all drilled and ready.
The bottom should look like this once everything is all bolted down.
6) Now just attach the heim joints to the brackets and tighten it down. Make sure to have the joints extended a little out of the threaded rod when you do your install. This will allow room for adjustment once you're done.
If it makes you feel better take out probe from everything I typed and replace it with MX6. It's the same car. They both have Mazda KL engines and were both assembled in the Flat Rock Michigan plant. Except the probe had much larger production numbers. And that is why most people say probe when referring the probe/mx6 platform.
