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Best way to figure out which endlink/rod-end is noisy?

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Old 06-21-2009, 04:18 PM
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Default Best way to figure out which endlink/rod-end is noisy?
What's the preferred method to figure out which swaybar endlink is noisy? Or which rod-end of which endlink? There's got to be something better than randomly swapping pieces...
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Old 06-21-2009, 05:26 PM
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Stand on the door sill and jump up and down like crazy. If it goes clunk
(and a swaybay usually will) then get under there and place fingertips
onto the various components.
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Yeah, well, it won't even clunk consistently on the street unless I carefully go over a speed bump to load it just right.
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Old 06-21-2009, 07:25 PM
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With vehical sitting on the pavement(not jacked up),Crawl under each corner and hit sway bar links with rubber mallet.If one is going away,soon they all will be history.Replace both ends if one is bad.
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Just don't step on the part of the sill that has the black plastic "step". It will cave in.
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Originally Posted by GrantB
Who makes/sells this version?
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Originally Posted by thehammer69
Who makes/sells this version?
Click the link

http://www.powergridinc.com/

I have them and they work great on my Pfadt bars (though the fronts only got about 4 threads engaged because of the thicker arms on the Pfadts, so I'm not sure if they're safe like that).
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