I had bought two packs of poly sway bar bushings to make indestructible mounts for my samurai. I had four of them left over. So I left them sitting on the desk, not thinking much about them. Today I was a little bored, so I thought I'd put them on my truck if they'd work. Sure enough, they work great! A pack of them would include enough to do two trucks. They only cost about $15 with tax at any of the big name parts stores. And best of all it's only 10 mins start to finish to put them on. So if you've got a buddy with a 4wd dodge, hook him up too!
You can see my factory bushings with 230K miles are a little worse for wear huh?
First off, do yourself a favor. Pour a little bit of oil on the threads.
Next take the nuts off both sides. It's a 15mm. Then pull the sway bar up and out of the way. You can then pull the crusty bushings out. Keep the bottom washer as it's a little larger than the ones included in the pack.
The bottom bushing has a little larger shaft to go over. So I just took my deep well socket and tapped it on with a hammer. It'll go on easy.
Once you have the base bushings on. Lower the sway bar back down on the rods at the same time. Then simply pop the top bushings and washers on. I used the nice galvanized washers supplied.
Then snug them back down on both sides and you're done!
Yeah, I think I've got my monies worth out of these!
I could have probably replaced the entire link. But I had these laying around. The ball joint sections still felt tight on mine though, surprisingly!
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