Nice! It’s a good day when suspension work doesn’t turn into a whole weekend of swearing at one stuck and rusted bolt
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A very easy repair that the dealer wants $220 an hour to do.
Admittedly I'd be paying that to know what the problem is and how to fix it.
I mean thats totally valid.
This was an easy one to diagnose. We hit a pot hole and then heard clunking right after, especially when turning one direction and not the orher. (As the body rolls and sway bar wants to hit axle) No noise when driving a steady rate and straight.
So a quick visual inspection showed the problem. And I'm glad it was that and not a CV joint acting up :)
That's part of what terrifies me about how complex modern cars are and how 'densely' constructed they are.
Old cars have room to see what's gone wrong :-)
Well, had one go in an almost brand new to me car over a set of tracks in the dead of winter as a naive kid and didn’t figure it out for quite a while. 😛
Even went autocrossing with it like that and couldn’t figure out why the hell I was sliding into every corner. Was probably losing about 3 seconds over each run it was so bad.
I took off the valve cover of an old Toyota the other day while chasing down a slow oil leak. All I found was a bunch of loose bolts ruining engine compression (the search for the leak continues).
I've never fixed a sway bar, so I guess I'll have to locate it and check in on it now. Thanks!

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