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Need bolts for rear stabilizer link : Link to frame

Johnnyboy201

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2001 Ford Explorer Sport
Can't find them anywhere. Hope someone can point me in the right direction. Also looking for a rear bushing kit which includes the axle mount brackets, bushings and bolts. I can order those parts separately from Ford parts but an aftermarket kit I'm sure would be less expensive.
 






There is no kit that I'm aware of that has all those parts, and only one source for the axle bracket bushings besides Motorcraft F57Z-5493-DB (for 19mm bar).

Energy Suspension has a kit # 4.5153G (for 19mm bar, measure yours to be sure it's same size as I don't recall if one or both sway bars are smaller diameter on a Sport) but it doesn't include the metal brackets or bolts.

Right now that ES kit is probably cheapest at Rock Auto ($21) but the price can fluctuate a lot on Amazon... currently $30 which is the most expensive I've ever seen it there, but last fall for a short while it was only $11. It'll tighten up the sway bar movement compared to the Motorcraft rubber, (except I don't even know if Motorcraft has the link bushings separate or only already installed in new links) but the downside is you may have to relube the ES polyurethane bar bushings every now and then to keep them from squeaking, though they shouldn't squeak as bad as their kits that have the red bushings, due to carbon in the black ones. The links 2L2Z-5K483-BA are VERY reasonably priced on White Bear Lake Ford at $2.33 each, but then (for my location) $13 S/H.

Rock Auto



If your brackets can be cleaned up, I'd just do that and paint them or grease them up good to retard rust, though it might nott be hard to fabricate something out of plate steel. Bolts, hardware store hardened metric if nothing else is found but you might also look for bolts and brackets at a junkyard, or have you not tried to remove yours yet and there's a chance they are salvageable?

When I need OEM parts I usually look at White Bear Lake Ford due to some of the lowest prices for OEM parts, but I didn't see the bolts listed. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't have them, for some reason the same parts can show up available for one vehicle model year but be missing on another year that uses the same part! If you can find the Ford part #s that might help to search their site.


Edit: Okay I found some parts on White Bear Lake Ford, though it is crazy how much they want for the brackets at $25 each! I'm not even sure if they're the right parts, because for some reason they don't even list the parts the same for an '01 sport as they do for, say a '99 non-sport, so here are both:



Again I'm assuming a 19mm bar is what these are for and don't know for sure about an '01 Sport. WBLF does list them as compatible but I don't always trust their compatibility list, would measure yours to be sure they're 19mm. IIRC, '02 moved up to 21mm and uses a more squarish shaped bushing instead of the squashed flatter, more rectangular shape of (most or all?) '01 and older.
 






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