So today since it reached almost 70' in WNC I declared it Sway Bar Day!
All the rubber bits showed up overnight so I picked them up from my dealer and decided to go at it.
My truck has pretty much zero rust! Except it seems on one bolt of the two holding the right front sway bracket to the frame, it seems the engineers did FAIL in one area. The drain drops condensate on those threads. Man oh man after three PB Blaster applications it was still a bear to remove but I did get it out. A pic of the bolt is shown below.
So if your wanting to replace all the front and rear rubber bits see the attached pictures with the part numbers, however there is one error and that is on the four bolts that hold the front sway brackets to the frame. I looked them up and e parts man verified the number but it's definarely not the correct bolt. Odd looking and to long to even get started on the bolt that goes up from underneath right above the TB. So I reused thre and had an extra as my fourth in the shed.
It really makes a huge difference in feel and the rocking side to side I had before. The shocks were replaced with OEM Toyota at 423,096 so I knew they were not the issue.
I found with the rig on jackstands front and rear it was pretty easy. Now without air tools and me on a creeper by myself I completed it in @4-hours. Could have been slightly quicker but that one bolt with the rust was tough. And those two bolts are so close to the TB you can only get a wrench in them so I am thankful I had GearWrenches.
Guess I'm going to see if making an extension to the AC drain is doable, although I don't see myself ever going back in there anytime soon, hahaha.
I also included some comparison photos of the old versus the new.
Front part numbers.
Rear part numbers.
Rear items.
I do want to add if your rig has surface rust and such I would also recommend the inner sleeve as well. One of mine was a little stuck and took come coaxing out wth a BFM and a large socket over the nut installed back onto the other end.
Front items.
These are the bolts that were supposed to be relaced per the FSM but there has got to be something up with the part numbers.
I have seen a lot of other people make that same mistake on this forum as well. Unfortunately, no one will update their database to correct this issue so I'm sure it'll continue to happen to other folks if they don't do a little more research first. Glad you got it all worked out though! When I replaced all of my links and bushings it was a night-and-day difference in ride quality.
