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Old 09-19-2010, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by cleavster View Post
I'm replacing the sway bar bushing and a broken sway bar bracket on my car. I'm planning to place front of the car on ramps so I have more space to do the work. Will that place a load on the sway bar and it may just pop out after I start taking it apart? After reading the threads it seems to be a pretty straight forward and a lot of them indicated that you can do this while they are on the ground in a normal stance. Anything else I need to know? What is the best procedure?

Cheers,
Just curious what your symptoms were? My E320 wagon will have intermittent "clunking" (not really metal-to-metal sound) almost like the bushings in question are age hardened (which I'd guess they are!). This seems to happen generally soon after starting from the garage in the morning - not so much so later. (Kinda seems like me when I get up in the morning! )

The car has 87K mi on it so I'm thinking it may be time for change?
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