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[quote=”sam_priem” post=45163]what car is it? year? make? model? engine? transmission?[/quote]
Right, sorry.
She’s a 1999 Nissan Altima with the KA24DE hooked to a 5Speed tranny FWD.
not sure exactly on that car but for the most part its pretty similar on most cars.
1. take tires off
2. find the sway bar links (should look like a small rod connecting a bar to the control arm)
3. get an impact wrench (if you dont have one, buy one. its worth the money and almost a MUST if you do this job) and loosen the top nut holding it to the control arm. (if you cant get the nuts loose without the shaft spinning, you may need to cut it out with a sawzall or a small cutting wheel, or you can try to use a nut splitter if theres room)
4. do the same thing for the nut holding it to the sway bar (if you have to, you can put a floor jack under the control arm to put pressure on the sway bar link. it sometimes helps to loosen the bolts without the whole shaft spinning)
5. using the floor jack, raise/lower the control arm until the new swaw bar link fits into the holes.
6. using the impact wrench, tighten the nuts down until the bushings start to buldge out a bit
thatll get you in the ball park. there maybe some extra steps involved with that perticular car but for the most part its a pretty straight forward job. look at it enough and it will make sense as you start taking it apart. do one side at a time so you can look at the other side to figure out how it goes back together if you forget.
hope that helps
this link is for a maxima but should help.
I realize this vehicle is far off from what you have but the principals are the same.
Keep us posted on your progress.
So glad to find this video.
One change that non-shop owning folks may find useful… Pulling the axle would be intimidating to me. I tried the needle nose grips and they kept slipping off for me also. So I knocked the metal end off with a hammer and big screw driver (the plastic inside breaks). You can then clamp the ball end with a big vice grips, and the shaft stops turning once the vice grips encounters an immovable object.
I could not fit the impact driver in there, so used a 14mm combo wrench, and banged on it with a BFH. Yes, I thought it was a LOT of work also, and was glad to hear Eric say that.
The allen head came in handy holding the new one still as I tightened the nut (again, no impact wrench).
Diffr’nt strokes for diffr’nt folks!
thanks for the video. I did the rear sway bar endlinks on my 2003 civic si and they are very similar to the endlinks on the element. after the install the endlinks are not perpendicular to the swaybar, they are little angeled as shown in attachement. is this something that need fixing or they should be ok like that ?
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