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End Link Installation

Started by Patrick., May 13 2005 06:38 PM

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#1 Patrick.

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Posted 13 May 2005 - 06:38 PM

I have new end links and I'm trying to get the old ones off so I can install them.I have the car jacked up and I got both of the end link bolts off but there is quite a bit of tension on the end link so I cannot get it off. What is the proper way to remove the stock sway bar end links? I assume I'm not doing it correctly, please help me out! what do I jack up to get tension off the link once I get the bolts off?

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Edited by 850Charisma, 13 May 2005 - 06:44 PM.

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#2 Patrick.

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Posted 13 May 2005 - 06:50 PM

Anybody w/ any input at all PLEASE help me out! I need to drive the car later and it's all in pieces, I really don't want to give up and bolt the crappy ruined end links back up.

I know somebody knows the (simple, I'm sure) answer!!
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#3 Guest_Guest_*

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Posted 13 May 2005 - 06:57 PM

Dont you need a pickle fork/ball joint separator? Have you tried a BFH?

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#4 theunderlord

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Posted 13 May 2005 - 06:58 PM

QUOTE(Guest @ May 13 2005, 11:57 AM)

Dont you need a pickle fork/ball joint separator? Have you tried a BFH?

nice... BFH's rock...

Patrick.. are you installing Slater's endlinks?

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#5 Guest_AlvinL_*

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Posted 13 May 2005 - 07:14 PM

Jack up the car and place on stands so that the front suspension hangs freely. After this you may have to jack the control arm on one side or the other depending if you need to raise the stabilizer bar to take the pressure off the other side.

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#6 PullMyFinger

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Posted 13 May 2005 - 07:19 PM

If you go the BFH route, make sure none of your body parts (or anything else for that matter) are anywhere near it when it comes out.

As suggested, jack up car on both sides using the frame and let the wheels hang freely. Then remove wheels. Use another jack to raise the spindle until the tension has been released from the sway bar.

The stock sway bar has a rubber bushing that is attached (vulcanized I think) to the sway bar so that it resists rotating very far. Its that bushing that is causing it to bind with the suspension unloaded.

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#7 Patrick.

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Posted 13 May 2005 - 07:24 PM

1 down 1 to go

by the way oem bars but i want slater links later

typing with pinky finger only, the rest are filthy

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#8 prasamin

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Posted 13 May 2005 - 07:57 PM

Patrick, you gotta let the suspension hang when you're unscrewing, and then support the control arms with something to get the links off and back on....