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The end links are NOT easy to torque. Just for yalls info, I put my body weight on it the best I could once the nut was tight enough that it wouldn't turn the shaft, and it STILL came off once before. HOWEVER. The bottom nut never came off of either side. The only ones that had come loose before were the top ones, ON the sway bar. Not the ones on the ca. So it lets you know how tight these need to be. |
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The line could just be a crack in the powder coat. The rusty ring appears to indicate movement from the nut being loose. Pull it apart. If the hole is round and true, bolt it backup with a hardened washer and I'll bet you are good to go. If the hole is elongated a bit, assemble it the same way and you should be good to go as we have done this with other 55h Gens that had the same problem. None have failed. If the hole is elongated a lot, and the rusty ring doesn't indicate a lot, you should replace the arm before you travel to the FEST. If you post a picture of the tab without the endlink, we can decide right here in the thread. |
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03-22-2011, 05:55 PM | #51 | |
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My situation now is on the bottom. But that's common there what you have, like Pete said, locktite, hardwasher and cle3an threads. Torque it down good. |
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Bought new nuts with the nylon locking ring and used red loctite to install them tonight. Reefed them as tight as I could by hand, no impact wrench unfortunately. Fronts were ok. just tightened them a bit. Less than eighth turn.
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Not sure how i missed this yesterday, but everyone needs to be sure they are getting the end link nuts tight, and that they re-check them after a day or so of driving.
Pete was 100% right when he said the bracket broke due to a loose end link, you can see the right side link was loose too because of the red dust around it, be sure it's not cracked when you take it off, and follow Pete's advise and you should be good to go. Anytime you see red dust like that it's form something being loose or something hitting/bottoming out. |
03-23-2011, 10:00 AM | #55 |
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Ok. Good stuff.
We've seen loose end links on here before ON THE sway bar, but I think this is the first lower ones that have shown evidence of too loose. Difference in upper and lower apperenlty is lower will fail much quicker. I think we've learned something solid here in this thread. I'll pose a slightly different 'questions' now. Pete had asked me if it had come loose before, and I answered yes. I was mistaken. The TOP had come loose before but never the bottom. Doesn't change the outcome, diagnosis, and reason for the failure, we have that nailed down, but my new questions are a little further into it. 1. The last time I found the end link (on the top part where it attaches to the sway bar) loose, I was able to just push it back on and nut it. So there was not any pressure on it. That's normal right? 2. I went out lastnight (too late to jack it up and take it apart for pics) and went to tighten the other side just to see, and it's pretty damn tight. Considering the nut is still on there and still pretty tight, how do you know they are tight enough? I mean, I lifted my lying body off the ground when I tightened them. So how to know? 3. Kinda a sub-question to question 1, I was only able to put the end links in the rear hole on the sway bar. Just wouldn't go in flush on the center and not even close on the last hole. So, when the car is lowered, is there supposed to be pressure (the car sitting) with weight on the links and bar? |
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