How to Replace Front Sway Bar Links 1988-02 GMC Sierra 1500
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Published 2020-04-27
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Sway bar links connect the sway bar (stabilizer bar) to other suspension components. They have a movable joint that can be damaged or wear out over time. When that happens, the joints get loose, and rattle. This video shows you how to install new TRQ sway bar links on your 1988-2002 GMC K1500.
• Check here for more videos on the 1988 to 2002 GMC K1500 Sierra: • GMC K1500 Sierra 1988-2002 4th Gen
This process should be similar on the following vehicles:
1988 GMC K1500
1989 GMC K1500
1990 GMC K1500
1991 GMC K1500
1992 GMC K1500
1993 GMC K1500
1994 GMC K1500
1995 GMC K1500
1996 GMC K1500
1997 GMC K1500
1998 GMC K1500
1999 GMC K1500
Tools you will need:
• Pry Bar 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00020
• 10mm Wrench 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00010
• 13mm Wrench 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00010
• 10mm Socket 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00017
• 13mm Socket 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00015
• 22mm Socket 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00266
• Air Chisel 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00270
• Socket Extensions 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00015
• Swivel
• Torque Wrench 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00044
• Rust Penetrant
• Hammer 1aau.to/oa/1AXAA00091
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All Comments (21)
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"You can use a 10mm wrench, if you have all day" bruh that killed me 🤣🤣
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An excellent video...so well done. I have watched thousands of auto repair videos and this was one of the best. Hope you get tons of subscribers.
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I recently repaired my 1996 GMC Yukon and found that the stabilizer link bushings were difficult. It would have been much easier to reinstall with the bolt flipped around as your video depicted but I found that the upper swaybar did not have much clearance and I was concerned the swaybar would contact the bolt threads on bumpy roads. I replaced the assembly with the bolt in the down position. Thanks for the video. Sorry for my late comment.
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Beautiful truck, but that's some serious chassis rust - I feel better about mine now. My links were rusted solid and I cut them with a sawzall. I need to get an air chisel. Thanks for good instructions and saying the slot in bar bushing goes to the back.
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What harbor did you guys bring this madden to top from?
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Dude, use a Sawzall to cut the old links off!!!
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Thanks man I love your videos You always make it look like a piece of cake
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good video. Professional
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That is a great video
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One question, what's a vericle?
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Hello I am looking for the tightening torque of this bar
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What a rust bucket!
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This seems quite a bit easier if one of them is just completely gone lmao 🤣
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Isn't this the same guy from 1A-Auto?
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I'd be so upset with all that rust under my vehicle. Glad I live in the south.
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My sway bar is sitting directly on top of my new sway bar links giving me zero clearance, and now I've stripped out my sway bar bracket bolt trying to adjust it all, this is very, very, very frustrating I don't know what I have wrong.
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Had to be a northern truck with that amount of rust underneath
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Yep going to the mechanic 😂
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Doesnit matter which way the bolt goes ? Up through the lower control arm or down through the bar ? If that makes sense
