And now I have come to the front sway bar.
I removed most of it with some effort. But the driver side link(the thing with
the ball at the end of it) won't come loose with the nut/stud/nut
arrangement. It freely turns. The mounting to the wishbone has 2 plates over it
that won't let me get a wrench in there to hold it
as I undo the nyloc nut. Sadly, the small rubber bushing(that looks like one
you'd stick in a brake MC) has worn away.
Any way around this? My only idea was to stick a c-clamp around it, other side
being the "lip" of the wishbone, and trying to unscrew
it from there.
Interesting observations:
1. My left mounting plate for the bushings is twisted at the free end. Front
part is too high, rear part too low. How hard would it be
to bend this back? I was thinking of mounting a super-big nut&bolt, and using a
cheater bar to bend it back, with what little clearance
I have.
2. The u-bolts holding the bushings on aren't like the ones I see in the
catalog. INstead of a semicircle bottom, it's moreso U shaped
with one side being about 70 degrees, the other at 110 degrees, with roundish
corners. Is that OEM? Thankfully the rubber bushings
are okay, for I didn't order replacements for that. Heh, nice untouched by
nature part of the plate is a prefect body color yellow.
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