Today I installed the baja Ron’s sway bar and links. I watched the Ryker Ryder video a few times in advance. All went well until removing the 4 bolts that hold the rubber bushings which hold the sway bar. Nothing is easy on this process and I noticed Ryker Ryder video kinda stopped here and skipped over the process. I know why. Ughhh
The right side isn’t that bad. A small channel locks worked well to hold the nuts. There are slots to get at them. The left side has something in the way. It’s its own animal. I dropped both nuts into the channel. It slides inside the channel and gets stuck at the bottom where you can’t hardly see it let alone get them back out. I used a 24” screwdriver to flick one out. The other I just left there and gave up. Bought a new nut. I strongly recommend you bunch some paper towel down this chute and block the spot the nuts get stuck. I think it’s 100% chance you lose a nut if not both. Plan on it. I used 4 different methods for the 4 nuts. A small socket worked on 2 of them. Chanel locks worked on the other 2. I had various length sockets and extensions to make it work. I’m in the building trades. I’m used to problem solving. If your not able to sit back 15-20 minutes on each nut to figure out how to get at them id skip this project. To get the nuts back on was another trick. You cannot get your fingers to the end of the bolts. I used thick grease on my finger tip. I was able to point at the bolt with the nut on the end of my finger. Pretty much all 4 nuts needed this method. I almost gave up several times but forced myself to figure out another way to do it. Shove your hands into every crevice to see if you can get a finger into that spot
Total time spent 4 hours. If I had to do it again I could cut it down to 2-2.5 most likely.
Knuckles bloody and glad it’s done
Blocking the chute where the nuts fall into is the biggest tip!
Otherwise plan on buying more nuts
The right side isn’t that bad. A small channel locks worked well to hold the nuts. There are slots to get at them. The left side has something in the way. It’s its own animal. I dropped both nuts into the channel. It slides inside the channel and gets stuck at the bottom where you can’t hardly see it let alone get them back out. I used a 24” screwdriver to flick one out. The other I just left there and gave up. Bought a new nut. I strongly recommend you bunch some paper towel down this chute and block the spot the nuts get stuck. I think it’s 100% chance you lose a nut if not both. Plan on it. I used 4 different methods for the 4 nuts. A small socket worked on 2 of them. Chanel locks worked on the other 2. I had various length sockets and extensions to make it work. I’m in the building trades. I’m used to problem solving. If your not able to sit back 15-20 minutes on each nut to figure out how to get at them id skip this project. To get the nuts back on was another trick. You cannot get your fingers to the end of the bolts. I used thick grease on my finger tip. I was able to point at the bolt with the nut on the end of my finger. Pretty much all 4 nuts needed this method. I almost gave up several times but forced myself to figure out another way to do it. Shove your hands into every crevice to see if you can get a finger into that spot
Total time spent 4 hours. If I had to do it again I could cut it down to 2-2.5 most likely.
Knuckles bloody and glad it’s done
Blocking the chute where the nuts fall into is the biggest tip!
Otherwise plan on buying more nuts
