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Here I'm going to be replacing the front sway bar links in this 2016 Ram 1500.
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You don't have to remove the tire to get to this sway bar link but we did for the sake
of the video.
It is a little bit easier to access it, but it's not necessary.
I'm going to take a 18 millimeter socket and a breaker bar.
It will loosen up this nut on the bottom.
And the stud is starting to spin, I am going to use a little bit of rust penetrant.
Spray the top as well.
So up to the bottom nut, I'm going to use an 18 millimeter wrench, and I'll use an 18
millimeter socket and ratchet.
I'm going to hold the stud with the ratchet and the socket, loosen up the nut with the
wrench.
That's loose enough to do by hand.
Take that off.
With the top, I'm going to use a 16 millimeter socket and a ratchet, and I can use a 15 millimeter
wrench and I'm going to keep the link from spinning, right there.
Take the nut off.
At this point we're going to need to do the same procedure on the other side.
The other side also removed and I can take a prybar, can just bend the sway bar up, pull
this link out, just like that.
Here's the old link, here's the new link from 1aauto.com.
The shape is the same, it's got the same length, comes with new nuts, comes with bushings.
The lower stud has a little area where you can put a wrench so that you can keep it from
spinning.
Get yours at 1aauto.com and you'd be ready to rock and roll.
Right.
Now we're going to separate the nut and pull the bushing off.
Get this started up here.
Get the nuts started.
And down below, get this started.
And you're going to want to do the same with the other side.
It's a good idea to do these in pairs.
I'll take a pry-bar, fix this down, get this nut started.
Now, with the other side the sway bar link in the same position as this, I will take
a 18 millimeter wrench and 18 millimeter socket and a ratchet, I'll tighten up the nut on
the bottom.
Now, I'm going to use the torque wrench and I'm going to torque this to 75 foot pounds,
pull the wrench out, take a 15 millimeter wrench and I'm going to put it right there
in a 16 millimeter socket and a ratchet and we'll tighten this up.
Once that starts to get tight, we'll get a torque wrench.
I'm going to torque this to 16 foot-pounds.
It's good.
Now I'll do the same to the other side.
If you took the wheel off, put the wheel on at this time.
Thanks for watching.
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