tarett swaybar stuff broke ..., anyone else had problems? Options

[SirAndy]

so on my way to the AX saturday i noticed a "clunk" sound from the frontend, like i had lost something.
i had this happen before, bolt came lose on the swaybar droplink, so i thought that was it ...

when i get to the AX site and change tires, i see the droplink hanging all weird so i take a closer look and the lower hime joint has broken. the thread just snapped off the joint.
i then continue to change the tire on the other side and it's exactly the same! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif)

both hime joints broke in the exact same location. that seems too odd to be coincidence.
i must have hit something *really* hard for that to happen, but i can't remember running over any bad potholes etc.

anyone else had problems before?
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif) Andy

[john rogers]

Has anyoner snapped a bolt off? Remember what heppened? There was a large amount of kickback and I would almost bet that is what happened here. The threaded part broke at the other extreme and the shock/force of the snapping action caused the heim joint to wedge the other way. In looking at the picture above with the A-arm compressed, that is a huge amount and I would think the inserts would have bottomed well before hat could have happened? From the picts of the car if I remember it is already sitting low and I would bet the compression is not that great, but from the looks of the suspension travel I bet there is a large amount of extension when lifting that inside front wheel. If it were me, I'd pull a strut insert to see what kind of rebound and compression the insert has?