98 K1500 Z71 Font End Rebuild From High To Low

[Schurkey]

Put some silicone grease on the bushings so they slide on the bar easier.

AFTER polishing the rust off of the bar.

Move the sway bar around with a pry bar to get clearance where you need it.

 

[LCALDERA98]

ill buy some pry bars today and work on it tomorrow after work its 50 degrees right now and raining tomorrow should be a good 90 degrees and sunny hopefully..... it is tornado season here now

 

[Caman96]

AFTER polishing the rust off of the bar.

Move the sway bar around with a pry bar to get clearance where you need it.

I think he bought a new sway bar.

 

[Hipster]

Not really sure of the difficulties being encountered but they are split bushings. Drop the clamps on both sides at the same time, install bushings, re-install clamps. Okay so source a couple longer bolts to get them started and clamped down, remove one at a time and put oem ones back in.

A sway bar is spring steel and the last thing you need to do is beat, bang, nick, or otherwise chew the surface up with what can turn into fractures such as the bar in the photo is showing.

 

[termite]

My 0.02 for what it's worth, I'd pull the end links, drop the bar, install bushings and loosely clamp them before reinstalling links. Definitely clean up that bar or replace it before installing new bushings.

 

[Caman96]

I think he bought a new sway bar.

My 0.02 for what it's worth, I'd pull the end links, drop the bar, install bushings and loosely clamp them before reinstalling links. Definitely clean up that bar or replace it before installing new bushings.

 

[Kens1990K2500]

I just wanna say ... dude: you have a really clean chassis on that truck. Nothing at all like a typical New England truck, lol. What state you in?

 

[LCALDERA98]

I just wanna say ... dude: you have a really clean chassis on that truck. Nothing at all like a typical New England truck, lol. What state you in?

the good ol state of Oklahoma

 

[LCALDERA98]

i figured out why i was having such a hard time putting those bushings in

so the control arms are from Astor and since i didnt have any load on the control arms ( just the shocks and end links )

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the end of the lca would bump the bar up causing the bar not to rest in its grove but rather lifting it closer to the frame making it almost impossible to put that bushing in even if i jacked the lca to make it even it still would lift the bar so i just took the lca bolt out and hit the lca with a harm to move down and the bar fell right in place and it have me extra room to but the bushings in and also the brackets once i took out both lca bolts out it took about 4-6 minutes and each side to but the bushing sand clamps in