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01-13-2003, 08:45 PM
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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.   Robert 
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01-13-2003, 10:46 PM
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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
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01-14-2003, 09:44 AM
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Gilly,
you got it chief. Robert
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02-01-2003, 04:33 PM
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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.
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04-10-2004, 10:02 AM
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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.
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04-10-2004, 04:15 PM
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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
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