Strano bars install question
Strano bars install question I'm beginning to install my strano front bar and have a question(hopefully its not to dumb of a question). My driver's side endlink I can barely loosen. I can turn it but it goes extremely hard. I have to leave the wrench on the top side against the shock to have enough pressure there so i can just turn the bolt. Is this normal? There seems to be a decent bit of rust and everytime I do turn the bolt it makes a snapping sound almost like i'm gonna break something. The car has just over 60k miles so i'm guessing its just old parts?
Also does it matter if i loosened the bushings first? does that put more pressure on the endlinks then?
Also does it matter if i loosened the bushings first? does that put more pressure on the endlinks then?
Last edited by chadnol10; Sep 12, 2007 at 10:14 AM. Reason: forgot something
Staging Lane
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If it's the stock stuff, the end links may break when you loosen them. They broke on me when we loosened them to install my shocks. Don't worry too much, you've got a better replacement to go in.
I twisted all my stock endlinks until they broke and sawed one in half. No big deal. You should get new endlinks anyway.
Next time I attempt to remove stock swaybar endlinks, I will just cut them off instead of wasting my time trying to remove them.
Next time I attempt to remove stock swaybar endlinks, I will just cut them off instead of wasting my time trying to remove them.
If it breaks that is fine I was just making sure I wasn't doing something wrong because of how hard they were turning. Sounds like I need to just put a little muscle into it.
