as promised..
 

Then here's the old design. :(

Thanks again for the tip and part numbers!!!

Off to the dealer tomorrow as I have yet to find an online store yet that carrys them.

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http://www.f150online.com/galleries/...-505-46659.jpg

Robert

Yes, excellent pictures, those are the "knockers" alright!
Maybe when you have the old ones off, just prior to installing the new ones, you can take a picture of both the old and the new side by side.

Gilly

Gilly,

you got it chief.

Robert

sway bar links changed
 

Gilly and all,

Hopped under the Benzo this afternoon to change/de-clunk the sway bar links and am happy to report the clunk/knock is NO MORE!! Having the Rolex 24 on in the background made it a more enjoyable evolution.

Here is a side-by-side of the new vs. old as requested.

sway bar bushings
 

I just replaced the Sway bar bushings on my 98ML and I can tell you that it was well worth the 20 minutes and <25.00 cost for the bushing kit. I was having some front end noise when I went over Speed Bumps and offroad ruts. It was sort of a hollow squeek / clunk sound. I used a rubber mallet and wacked the sway bar a few times ( after I had read in these forums about sway bar bracket noise ) and was able to duplicate some of the noise. The bushings that I removed had "shrunk" slightly and and were literally as hard as steel. The new ones were solid, but flexable. I removed the sway bar and put in the new bushings. I used the torque specs provided in another post by Gilly ( thanks ). Test drive immediatly confirmed the fix. It was like night and day, with zero front end noise present. I wish I had done it last year.

Yup, real irritating noise on the front if you have the old brackets. There's just a TON of things on these first year or three ML's that can be fixed if you know that fixes exist!
Gilly