Rear Sway Bar endlinks

[guitarshredder7]

The dreaded rear frame-side end link is starting to go bad. You can see the bolt starting to sag in the photos. My question, has anyone found a solution for this? I am thinking of getting some steel bar and making a doubler plate for it. I cannot justify spending upwards of a grand for a swaybar relocation from antirock or teraflex.

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[Gren71]

This is the first ive heard or seen this

what causes this? Just general wear and tare or is this from inferior aftermarket parts or something?

 

[guitarshredder7]

This is the first ive heard or seen this

what causes this? Just general wear and tare or is this from inferior aftermarket parts or something?

Search the forums, it's a common problem. I have my endlinks at the right length for my shocks but it still happens due to the inferior thickness of the metal at that location. I wouldn't say metalcloak, bilstein, and clayton offroad are inferior... lol

 

[kevman65]

If you can weld, or know someone that can, you can weld washers to each side of the mount, clean up and then Rust-oleum black on everything and bolt back up.

Make sure you use extra heavy washers, not thin fender washers.

 

[Renegade]

The dreaded rear frame-side end link is starting to go bad. You can see the bolt starting to sag in the photos. My question, has anyone found a solution for this? I am thinking of getting some steel bar and making a doubler plate for it. I cannot justify spending upwards of a grand for a swaybar relocation from antirock or teraflex.

I bought some steel bar from Lowe's and made a sandwich. It's a bit crude, but it's been working.

 

[guitarshredder7]

I found my solution.

 

[Renegade]

I found my solution.

That’s one way to do it…

 

[guitarshredder7]

That’s one way to do it…

I was gonna do the method you suggested, and actually had the steel plate in my garage! And then I realized my end links were not long enough for the falcons I ordered anyways. So… here we are lol.

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