sway bar, ball joint

[LL - NY]

I think they die with age. I killed one on my 4KQ and had no idea
why it broke. Just heard the thumping and found the link broken. As
I recall, the break was in the threaded area, which is a stress riser,
thus the failure mode was likely fatigue failure.

LL - NY

On 3/14/06, Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:10, Eric Henning wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I have noticed that when making a right hand turn in
> > my 86 4k, there is some bumping/thumping noise.  Only
> > right turns.  In looking at the area, I noticed the
> > sway bar attached from the sway bar to the control was
> > sheared off.  It is the small bar threaded on both
> > ends, one goes into the sway bar, the other into the
> > control arm.  Bottom half missing as I assume it fell
> > out.  Don't recal hititng anything and the break loked
> > old.  Maybe I never noticed before.  Anybody know
> > where I can get just this short connector bar?
>
> Endlink and rubber, dealer part 40 bucks.
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