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Old Feb 27, 2018 | 06:15 PM
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Looks like I need new end links!

Wow how embarrassing... the passenger side was gone. Driver side doesn't look much better... Luckily the other wearable parts look to be in decent shape. Now to research which ones to get and how to install... looks like a fairly easy job, no?
Also I will install my Wonderbar while I am at it.

Thanks for looking!



Looks like I need new end links!-drvside.jpg

Looks like I need new end links!-passide.jpg

Looks like I need new end links!-passideoff.jpg
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Old Feb 27, 2018 | 06:24 PM
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Re: Looks like I need new end links!

Incredibly easy. If those are the original end-links,you need only the bushings. Polyurethane is the way to go...
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Old Feb 27, 2018 | 06:55 PM
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Re: Looks like I need new end links!

Thanks! Looks like Pep Boys has the Energy Suspension ones for $15.
I can grab them tomorrow.
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Old Feb 27, 2018 | 07:26 PM
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Re: Looks like I need new end links!

You needed em long before that happened.

Poop Boyz, AZ, Advance, all have em hanging on cards. Or you can order em from several of our board sponsors; or, Scummit or Jug's or RockAuto or Amazon, or pick em up at yer local speed shop. Whatever peels yer banana. IMO that's THE BIGGEST bang for the buck mod you can do to your car. You need whatever length makes your sway bar sit level; usually 2" or 2¼" or 2½", depending on how bad your springs have sagged so far, does the trick. 2¼", as in your pic, is stock, but is too short in "all OE" shape.

Same length on the rear. You'll KICK YOURSELF, hell you'll maybe even ... no I won't go there ... when you realize how crappy your car has been for lack of spending $30 all these years. Might be so bad in fact, that you'll go buy the bushings for both ends too, THE VERY FIRST PLACE YOU HEAD TO after your new end links hit the street off of the jack stands. That total project will give you the YUUUUUUUUUUJJJJJJEST change in perceived driving fun for any $60 you will EVER spend on your car.

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