Sway bar (long) but help full...

[RI995.4L]

So.....

I 'HAD' what felt like something knocking the floor pan or nearby area which could be felt with foot(feet).

I replaced the ball joints previously along with shocks,stabilizer,& packed wheel bearings......But to no avail I still had the knocking floor pan along with the "common Squeaks" everyone talks about [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img]

Today I flushed the brakes,put on some new fangled Ceramic pads,and proceeded to lay under truck and look ......And look ...and loooook.

Realizing NOTHING is knocking or hitting the floor pan I realize the sway bar bushings are not only DESTROYED but the links the connect to frame are basically 'walking themselves off the bushings and ultimately the BOLTS holding them [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

Oh....And one link is mounted backwards 'misaligning it'.....

To make a long story bearable .......I ended up removing the links,removing the STOCK bushings from them (which were destroyed) and replacing them with some "Energy Suspension" bushings I had lying around from my old Toyota4x4(leaf spring bushings).

I lubed them with synthetic wheel bearing grease and cranked them on [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

Yes,I did turn the Pass. side link (the backwards one) around [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

GOOD NEWS!!! NO more Clunk,bang,knock ........Whatever you want to call it and it is SILENT [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]

Sorry so long,

Jon

[spaceace]

I had to custom make my sway bar bushings. I used urethane sway bar links bushings. (common type) and drilled out the centers. I then put them on the factory link studs.
I could not get the factory replacements in the links with a 20T press.

[RI995.4L]

YAh,I looked for them on a couple sites and called local for OEM bushings.


NO luck.....So I made my own [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Bikeman]

You could just take off the swaybar altogether [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[RI995.4L]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bikeman:
You could just take off the swaybar altogether [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


YEs I could.....but that would not benifit me at all in this application.

It is one thing to remove it on my Racecar....