"Percival P. Cassidy" > writes:

> On 09/08/14 08:24 pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>>> Unlike the driver's side, the passenger's side end of the sway bar
>>> does not want to move, and the old bushing is pinched tight against
>>> the frame. Jack up that corner and take the load off the suspension
>>> that side?
>>
>> You should have put the front up on jack stands before you started.
>
> I have jack stands, but they are the wrong shape to fit the jacking
> points on the car. And where would I place the jack so the jack stands
> can support the car in the right place?

I made some pads to put on my jack stands so I could use them under my
Intrepid.

> Why did one end of the sway bar move freely and the other not?

Good question -- though the way I'd phrase it would be "why did one side
work?" That the other didn't is no surprise at all.

> Anyway, I got the old bushing out and installed the new one, but the
> bolt that brought other metal out with it -- after cleaning up the
> threads of both the bolt and the part into which it screws -- does not
> grip. I'm thinking of trying to find a longer bolt with the same
> thread and putting a nylock nut on the bottom.
>
> Perce