Ohhh, that didn't sound good at all...

[Matt DeFina]

Uh oh... was just pulling into my condo building, and heard, and lightly felt, a loud "CLANK" from under the front....



UGH..



I took a quick look, but coudn't see anything obvious...

i'll have to wait until i get out of my buisness clothes and walk the dog before i do deeper searching..

 

[H D]

Hope it's nothing serious. Good luck.

 

[EddieS'04]

Might just be a broken swaybar end link.

 

[Robert Caffyn]

I'm sorry but, it sounds fatal. Find one of those dealers that will give you "double the value" of your trade-in. Upgrade to a newer Sport Trac!! Its what I would do, Bob

 

[Matt DeFina]

OK, so i got under the front and couldn't see any issuse at all...no broken sway bar end.. no drive shaft ussue, no steering problems... not sure what to do...



thoughts?

 

[Ray McIntireJr]

take it for another drive and see if it happens again.

 

[Todd Cloutier]

Could be the steering stop rubbing if you had the wheel turn all the way.

 

[Nick Smith]

You may have just run over a piece of metal in the road

 

[Matt DeFina]

found it.... don't know how i missed it the first time..



Eddie was right.. front passenger swaybar end link..



stripped right through the bolt at the top of the tie rod. the tie rod was still through the hole in the sway bar, and "looked" connected.. but no...

 

[Matt DeFina]

i zip-tied them together for now, so the tie rod doesn't jump over to the wheel or bind on something, and have an appt with the dealer for Tuesday

 

[Jerry Gerner 2]

Ok, is it the tie rod end or the sway bar that disconnected? The zipties will snap on the first hard corner or uneven bump. If it's the tie rod end you don't want to drive it 'til it's fixed.

If it's either the tie rod end or the sway bar endlink you can fix that yourself with a two wrenches, don't even have to remove the tires really.

 

[Matt DeFina]

it's the sway bar.. maybe i'm just using the wrong name for the piece that connects the sway bar to the control arm.

 

[Jerry Gerner 2]

Swaybar endlink, save youself a ton of money and just do it yourself. Only takes me about a half hour to replace mine, most of that time is setting up the boards to sit the jack and jackstands on because I have a gravel driveway.

:banana:

 

[Jerry Gerner 2]

Swaybar endlink, save youself a ton of money and just do it yourself. Only takes me about a half hour to replace mine, most of that time is setting up the boards to sit the jack and jackstands on because I have a gravel driveway.

:banana:

 

[EddieS'04]

Replace both sides. Oreily has moog for $14 each. Some say auto zone is moog.

 

[Kevin Lang]

Why do you need to jack the truck to play with the sway bar endlinks?

 

[Jerry Gerner 2]

Well when I repalced mine I also was doing all the brakes as well so i geuss you could count out the time for the jacks and stands. 10 minutes to do the endlinks.

:banana::driving:

 

[David Roll]

:worthless: