Question on replacing front anti-sway bar bushings on 92' 100 V6

[Brian O'Neill]

if you use an impact and a big crow bar to put some
back pressure on the sway bar the bolts will tighten
up. btdt. start the bolts by hand, and pull the sway
bar away from the car as far as you can to kinda hold
the bolts. be carefull, there are some bolts that you
cannot reach the top of and if you push the up and out
of there spots, you will have fun putting them back
in. i dont think the subframe bolts would need to be
replaced, i never have. they are just regular bolts. 
                                      brian o'
--- Anthony Chan <akbchan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I got some new front sway-bar bushings for my 92'
> 100 V6 but I am not sure 
> if I can do it without dropping the front subframe.
> My concern is the 
> mounting bolts for the front sway-bar bushing
> brackets. For 100/A6/S4/S6 
> from 92'-96' model years onwards the front subframe
> is different from the 
> older 100/200/5000s. On the pre 92' cars the bolts
> for the front sway-bar bushing brackets screw on to
> nuts in the subframe and 
> you can reach into subframe to hold on to the nuts
> while you are tightening 
> the bolts from underneath.
> 
> But for the post 92' cars the bolts pretrude down
> from the subframe, in 
> other words the bolt heads are inside the subframe
> the nuts screw on to the 
> bolts from underneath. There is way to reach into
> the subframe to hold on to 
> the head of the bolts while tightening the nuts to
> them. My mechanic and I 
> think the only way to do that is by dropping the
> subframe. in this case we 
> will need to order 4 new subframe bolts since they
> are non re-usable torque 
> to yield type bolts. It might probably require an
> alignment after the 
> fastening back to the car since moving or loosening
> the subframe will change 
> the caster slightly.
> 
> Are we missing something or is there an easier way
> to do this? Or perhaps 
> the head of the bolts are fixed in some sort slots
> so they don't turn round 
> and round when you tighten them?
>
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