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Subject:Re: Replacing Ball Joints...anything else while in there?
From:Roger Sisler
Date:Thu, 26 May 2005 11:24:44 -0400

If your getting squeaking, try putting a liberal ammount of anti sieze
compound on the inner sway bar bushings. They look like blocks of
rubber.Remove the  bolts and remove the bushings(plurel(sp?)).Now ,put the
left bushing on the right and the right bushing on the left. The wear
points are now new again! This may buy you time to readup on how rebuild is
done. Your gonna need it, if you plan to rebuild your front suspension.You
may consider getting a parts vanagon , post 85, and taking the front
suspension off that(if yours is pre 86). Rebuild this at your
lesure.Rebuilding this is no more costly , but the ride it provides is much
better, and someday , you can add big brakes to this steering knuckle.