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MLiebal · 02-25-2007, 05:42 PM

I wanted to post this as a heads up.

I started hearing a "clunk" on the front end during compressions.
Took a quick look and found my link that attaches to the sway bar broken on the right side of the vehicle.
Seems to me the bushings at the sway bar were worn and allowed the sway bar to rub on the link rod and wore thin enough to break.
Could have been a bit messy had the link pivoted over to the wrong area.

So, you may want to look at your sway bar bushings.
I could see that the bushings were not exactly tight on the sway bar, but did not think it was too bad.

1996 4Runner 195K miles

Time to order 2 new oem links and maybe a urenthane bushing kit.

02-25-2007, 05:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
MLiebal Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 58	Broken sway bar link I wanted to post this as a heads up. I started hearing a "clunk" on the front end during compressions. Took a quick look and found my link that attaches to the sway bar broken on the right side of the vehicle. Seems to me the bushings at the sway bar were worn and allowed the sway bar to rub on the link rod and wore thin enough to break. Could have been a bit messy had the link pivoted over to the wrong area. So, you may want to look at your sway bar bushings. I could see that the bushings were not exactly tight on the sway bar, but did not think it was too bad. 1996 4Runner 195K miles Time to order 2 new oem links and maybe a urenthane bushing kit.