I have a 95 eclipse and have to change the rear sway bar link anyone got any helpful hints on how to do it easily ?
PB blaster is your friend, i would soak it days before i had to work on it…
My dad said heat it up and hit it with the impact gun …
and some mapp gas to heat things up.
i dunno if i would use an impact gun. you risk rounding off the bolt head.
i just changed my sway bar itself out last night on my evo. i don’t know what the underside of the eclipse looks like, but they are usually pretty easy to get to with a socket and a breaker bar.
sometimes the bolt will spin in the end linkage, in that case i usually just grab the other side of it with some needle nose pliers and hold while you turn.
if you are using a breaker bar I highly doubt you would be able to hold the other side with a pair of needle nose pliers. :dunno:
use pb blaster for a few days with a little bit of hammer tapping on it to get the blaster down into the threads, then if that doesn’t work a little heat should be enough. I did this with all of the rusty bolts on my old truck and it worked very good for 90% of the bolts(I ended up snapping off a few manifold bolts that were just too rusted in there).
i used the breaker bar for the mounting brackets on the sway bar itself. i wasn’t sure if he was just changing the endlinks, or the entire sway bar assembly.
that, and i got a little side tracked in my previous post.
Just changin the link on the end … Hit it up with some penetrating oil and will go at it shortly
Changed the link and the noise it was supposed to fix is still there …WTF …