Front Sway Bar End links and Bushings???

['94ChickStang]

Happy Saturday all!

I broke my driver side end link, what brand should I go with? Also, do they come with the bushings or do I have to order those separately? I'm interested in what brand bushings as well if they don't come as a package (I see I need to make some measurements too ).

My searching leads me to believe I can swap these pretty easily myself? Hopefully someone can tell me yay or nay on that one...

Gotta get 'em ordered for next weekend

Thanks in advance

 

[BREWTUS428CJ]

Energy suspension 9.8124R (red) or 9.8124G (black) new links, with new poly bushings. should be about $15-20.

 

[HISSIN50]

You might be able to get the links locally (IIRC I got ES end links for my fox from AZ). The do come with end-link bushings.

 

[MysteryMachine]

Yeah pepboys sells Energy stuff too

 

['94ChickStang]

I will try to get it locally then, thanks.

Can anyone tell me if doing both the end links and swaybar bushings is tough or not? any tutorial would be a help!

 

[Chythar]

The swaybar & end links aren't tough at all. You may have to jack up the control arms to take the stress off of the swaybar so it'll come off easily. If you don't know, Ford used all sorts of different swaybars in our cars. Measure yours so you know the right diameter swaybar bushings. The end links and their bushings are the same for 94-04 Mustangs.

 

[BlackVert]

it is easy ... the only trick is if you are putting the car up, you might want to use ramps as opposed to a jack ...

as you probably know, the top part of the endlinks attach to the stabilizer bar.

lifting the car by the frame causes the springs to unload, which pushes the wheels towards the ground. this pushes the a-arms away from the stabilizer. so the side that still has the endlink will be under pressure, and on the other side, the distance between the hole in the stabilizer bar and the hole in the a-arm will be farther away from each other than they will be when the car is on the ground. that will make it hard to put the new endlinks in.

so use ramps to lift the car and it will be easier. either that or (like Cynthar said) jack up the a-arm to support it when replacing the endlinks.

swaybar bushings are easy too. there are 2 mounting points for the sway bar, each of which has 2 bolts. the bushings just slide on from the end. i used wd-40 to make them slide easier



btw, can someone post up a pic of their stock swaybar/endlink setup? that would give me an idea if i have my geometry correct. i had to fabricate some stuff to get my swaybar to clear the oil pan. (i asked for this in another thread i started a while ago, but peeps probably didn't see it because it got no responses)

 

[MysteryMachine]

the end links are just like long bolts. There is 2 bolts per side that holds the sway bar on. Its not too hard. Like chythar said they made a few different size sway bars for our cars so make sure you measure it perfectly. I don't remember how many times I had to take mine back for a different size cause they were wrong. I ended up getting a digital caliper to get the best measurement I could

 

['94ChickStang]

Sounds like it's easy enough to give a try!

I don't have a digital caliper so I'll just play the odds and buy mounts for a 29mm swaybar....to my understanding they were the most abundant.

 

[Chythar]

Sounds like it's easy enough to give a try!

I don't have a digital caliper so I'll just play the odds and buy mounts for a 29mm swaybar....to my understanding they were the most abundant.

Use an adjustable wrench to measure the size pf the swaybar, then measure the wrench gap with a ruler. No need for a digital caliper.

 

['94ChickStang]

Use an adjustable wrench to measure the size pf the swaybar, then measure the wrench gap with a ruler. No need for a digital caliper.

Love it...hope I have a ruler with metrics at the house. It would seem measuring one mm in either direction would be tough though

 

[MysteryMachine]

i did that and was still wrong lol

 

[BlackVert]

wrap a piece of paper around the bar and make a mark where it overlaps to measure the circumference

then divide that number by pi (3.1416) to get the diameter

if it is 29mm, then the circumference will be a tad over 91mm

math is a good thing

 

[MysteryMachine]

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