Help with sway bar end links...

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So today i set out to change my end links since i broke one. So it seemed pretty simple until i got under the car. The end link was broken in half so i couldnt hold the two nuts on each end to loosen the link. So i got the bottom half off but the top half i think it's impossible to get off just because where it broke. Heres some pictures to clarify...
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So you can see that it broke way high so theres like no way i can grip that little cm piece and loosen the bolt.

I dont know what else to do. I tried for like hour and 30 minutes and didnt get anywhere. I tried everything lol. I was trying to shave away the little cm post and pop the washer off with a screwdiver but that didn't work..

PLZ help lol(nothing seems to go right with cars)

 

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Try to use something like a punch and a hammer and drive the end of it up through the washer. If that will not work then you need a grinder or cut off wheel and cut that thing loose at the bottom and take it out. That is going to be your only two options.

 

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if ya can't get vise grips around that thing then i would say grind that bitch off. Ah yes you answered the question if i should spend the money on the whole set up or just the new bushings Thank You. I'm having enough problems then to have to deal with something stupid like that

 

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ya my new end links are much more beefer than the oem ones. I think i may be be able to hammer it through if not ill grind it lol

 

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or tear the elastomers out (cut,grind,torch) and use bolt cutters or a cut-off wheel in there. I like the other ideas better, but this did come to mind if grinding the head off does not work for some reason.

good luck.

 

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lol the good ol torch came to my mind too. But you gotta be careful with them

 

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1st thing I would do is remove the four bolts holding in the car and remove the whole sway bar so its easier to work on, but, I am old now and do not enjoy spending hours on my back with crap falling in my eyes and stuff..lol

 

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MysteryMachine said:

lol the good ol torch came to my mind too. But you gotta be careful with them

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Huh, what was that? Sorry, I was chipping a rock against a flint while trying to light a smoke - all while filling the propane tank.

Seriously, good call on being careful.

 

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HISSIN50 said:

Huh, what was that? Sorry, I was chipping a rock against a flint while trying to light a smoke - all while filling the propane tank.

Seriously, good call on being careful.

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ha ha I ment gotta watch what you heat up. Don't want to heat up something that you don't wanna mess up and screw it up so you have to replace it too.

 

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MysteryMachine said:

ha ha I ment gotta watch what you heat up. Don't want to heat up something that you don't wanna mess up and screw it up so you have to replace it too.

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Yeah, I know bud. that was a good call about 'being careful' with what you are doing (be it melting things around oneself or hurting oneself).

I had been out in the sun all day and had come in and replied - must have been heat exhaustion talking.

 

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either that or the beers but its all good