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]

The upper mount being tight against the sway bar is what I was refering to as there is no sideways movement it appears. If you get some new heim joints, I'd say to put the car up on jack stands in the front and test the A-arm travel with the bar hooked up on both sides and also with one side unhooked to see what is binding and what kind of clearances there are. This might mean devising a way to push the A-arm up to simulate full braking compression and pull the A-arm down to simulate a hard corner. This would be the only way short of mounting a video camera down there to see what is happening. I did this 6 years ago when we put the sway bars in the race car to make sure nothing was binding.