pop/thump in front end: 95+

[Robert]

If you believe it is related to your front sway-bar bushings and the service your dealer performed, you can remove both end links in about 10 mintues and try backing out of your driveway and see if the noise repeats. That is what I ended up doing to try and find a poping noise on mine. Even with my sway-bar disconnected, it still made a poping noise when I backed out of my driveway. Eventually the noise went away and hasn't been back for the last 6 months. One thing I did find a month or so ago was a rattling noise I was getting on anything but the smoothest of roads was due to my rear sway-bar bushing being loose. I replaced my bushings with ES bushings last summer and must not have gotten one side tight enough. For the last several months I had an annoying rattle that I thought was coming from the front. One day when I went to get in my Explorer I noticed one of the end-links on the rear sway-bar just haning there with no bolt or bushing. Come to think of it, I don't remember hearing the rattle for a few days prior. I replaced the bushing and listened for the noise. I haven't heard it since. The things on mine that have definately caused annoying rattles are bad rear wheel bearings, bad torsion bar adjusters, loose rear sway-bar bushing, rear seat-belt that was flopping against the plastic liner when it wasn't fully retracted and a loose amplifier that I mounted behind my rear passenger side speaker.