Heuster
Active Member
- Joined
- June 10, 2004
- Messages
- 92
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- City, State
- Phoenix, AZ
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '97 5.0 AWD
If you lift the front end so both front tires are in the air, you should be able to tell if the sway bar links are broken.
Keep us posted.
Bought the sway bar bushing kit that replaces the links and sway bar bushings, but didn't get it on yet. Finished the driver side ball joints - couldn't get the rear control arm bolt back in - too many fuel lines to get through - tried EVERYTHING. Put the thing in backwards to save my sanity. I'll deal with it. Get everything put back together and test drove it. Still making the sounds during acceleration - I already gave into the fact that the ball joints and UCA bushings were not going to fix it. During my test drive heard a grinding noise, and something was grinding on the brake rotor...EPIPHONY..."you forgot to tighted the axel nut all the way after you took it off the jack stands." Super. Walked home, a 20 minute walk (it was about 3:00AM at this point) and grabbed my truck, jack and axel nut socket along with the torque wrench, drove back to tighten it up. X was parked on the side of the road, found I didn't tighten all the lug nuts up either so in order to get them set right (just my logic, that doesn't mean it's right) I lifted my X a bit so all weight wasn't on lugs and tightened them. Started tightening axel nut and BAM! X fell off the floor jack. The jack went forward of the cross-member and appeared to have missed everything. Drove home (with two cars that took about 30 minutes) and smelled coolant. Funny thing is that it's not leaking from the front, but is leaking from the back. Nice. I needed more drama.
Anyway - problem isn't fixed, but I have more problems to fix now!