Are stock front and rear sway bar end links the same and interchangeable? Reason asking is i put new endlinks in my rear sway bar and i want to buy the bushings for it now but i only see a kit from Spohn that sells the Endlinks with bushings...I figure the endlinks that come with the bushings i might as well put them on the front if they fit? Does anyone know.

And also cheapest place for polyurethane replacement bushings?

Thanks, Steve

 

Yes - the front and rear are the same

 

nice...and cheapest place for poly? know of anywere?

 

Autozone sells Energy Suspension endlinks, for about $20 a pair. Not sure what length you need for the F-body, but if you bring one in, you could match it up.

 

hey holio, where were you last week when I asked what size the rear endlinks were????


good to know though, that would be 2 1/4 long right?
according to energy suspension, they only make the front and not the rear (they told me that in an email).

Anyway, the rear sleeve was 2.25" long, and they only show that they make a 2" or 2.375" long one.... Is the front 2.25"?

 

Both my front and rear sleeves measure 2.25". I just ordered a set of Energy Suspension end-links from Summit with the 1 5/8 inches sleeves for $13. I thought I would try some shorter ones since my car is lowered. Sorry Sonix, must have missed the post.

 

hey good deal, I at least got a good solid answer....
I'll measure my fronts, and if they're 2.25" then i'll just order another set of front endlinks, problem solved.

 

TDS sells the 1LE endlinks, which I much prefer because of their rounded heads (they fit the sway bar holes better IMP). Check Lon's site.

JamesC

 

confused as hell now. If the sway bar end links are the same why do they have different size sleeves. Like my orginal question...i already had rear sway bar endlinks but i got the kit with the bushings i want to use the endlinks that came with the 24mm rear sway bar kit on the front. Sleeves are bigger on the front then what came with the rear sway bar 24mm kit. The Sleeves on the rear that i replaced pothurethane are the same size as the front...why are the endlinks that came from spohn smaller sleeves..They look to small to even use for the rear. OR should i take the rear off which are bigger sleeves(or same size as front in this case) mount those up front and use the recomended size that came with teh 24mm rear sway bar kit endlinks on the back. I dont get it if they are the same size why i have smaller endlinks but whatever. HELP

Confused as hell and i dont know what to do cause i wanna cut off the old endlinks on the front cause they are a bitch to get out...BUT i dont want to cut them if i have the wrong size to put back in. There too rusted to turn anymore. Oh and im gonna now lose a whole finger nail which is purple as hell cause of this ****. I swear no matter what i do i cant avoid busting myself up no matter what i do. Falling off 3 and half pieces of ladder yesterday is not helping at all right now.

Anyone got any info itd be greatly appreciated.

 

anyone please...car has got to get off the stands before nightfall...

 

ok, hold your horses here, your description sucks.

sleeve = too small, you mean too short, or too narrow? does it fit over the bolt?
it's just shorter then the previous one? not such a big deal.

when you put them on, and lower the car onto the tires, the "pad" that has the hole in it, on the sway bar, should be parallel with the ground, if it's not, then it's too short/too long. If it's a small difference, throw some washers on. once you have the new ones on, they aren't hard to change (no rust now).


you'll have to get that fingernail drilled, and bled. Have fun, it'll fall off soon enough.

 

too short...im just curious why they made it that way if it requires a larger or longer sleeve. Its too dark i didnt take it off yet just loosened a bit. But ill wait till tommaro to cut the old ones off.

Thanks for ur info it was very helpful didnt think it could be as easy as just adding a few washers. but one other thing any chance the actual bolt could be shorter...cause up against it, it seems like its a little bit smaller dunno could just be how its tightened down. I dont wanna take off the old link because i have to cut the other 2 rear off from the bolts snapping. But in any case thanks for the help ill wait till tommaro to touch the car again.

 

you'll most likely have to cut off the old bolts. or soak 'em in wd-40 now.
even after you cut them, you can see how long they are, a hardware store will have replacement bolts if you need a certain length, and you can cut the tube to be shorter, and stack some washers to make it longer, not ideal, but you can. the tube is just a spacer anyway.


a shorter sleeve is usually if you've lowered the car or something. like I said you want that "tab" to be parallel to the ground. so stock, it would be, you get lower springs, and it's not, so you get a shorter sleeve, and it is.

 

sounds good ill have to put em in and take a look how parallel the bar is. Thanks for ur help though

 

I ordered the end links from Jegs ... yup.. Energy Suspension ... and I installed them .. however the spacers are quite a bit logner than the stock ones... and it was the correct ones .. supposedly

I'm just going to wirebrush my old spacers and reuse them

 

You should install a new endlink as an assembly, not swap sleeves. The threads on the bolt go down a certain distance, and are designed to run the nut down on the bolt until it runs out of threads, loading the bushings. If you put a shorter spacer on a longer bolt, you will not be able to tighten the nut enough because you will run out of threads. I would measure the length of the sleeve on the ones you are replacing, and get a new set with the same length sleeve.

 

Always wondered why myself, maybe Kat or Steve could jump in and answer that.

 

.....or hopefully Spohn himself will grace us with his presence and lend us his knowledge. (not joking, i'm curious.)

 

I actually emailed Energy Suspension .. got some warped answer regarding that end link kit just being a general purpose kit .. not a specific one for that car ... well I emailed them back .. giving them the part# for the Camaro .. taken from their website... no reply after that one

Problem is though ... my springs are most likely the old stock ones... the shocks well hmmmm they seem to may be stock ones too... if not... well.. not best quality

 

I emailed energy suspension too, so did someone else on this thread, or another one like it, same answers, they don't seem to know anything. useless..

 

no ****


Yeah so much for cutomer support

 

I just cut the ES spacer to the length of my stock spacer. Then to make sure I didn't run out of threads at the top I put a couple extra washers(from my old end-link) on the top (equal to the length of spacer I cut off). Worked great.

 

The front and rear have differant part numbers. They are differant sizes as well.

 

They are not different sizes on a Z28. They are different part numbers because the bushing material (nylon) in front is different then the rubber in back.