Anti sway bar bushings

[Gsmblue]

The bushings on the bronco rear sway bar are all but destroyed. I have never tackled this type of job before but I am thinking of removing the bar, stripping, painting, new bushings and putting back on over the weekend.

Are there any items I should be aware of? It looks like a few rusted nuts/bolts and not much else, it looks too easy and I am worried I am missing something!

[Gary Lewis]

It is that easy - if the drop links, 5K484, aren't rusted too badly.  They like to rust inside the bushings, just above the nut at the bottom that holds them on.

[Gsmblue]

Cool, i will pick up the bushings at the store later!!

Lots to do this weekend!

[Gsmblue]

I found some MOOG blue pieces that should look nice. Now I just need to measure the anti-sway bar diameters and work out the bar bushing sizes for the rear, the MOOG website does not seem to help with the rear...

[Rembrant]

Gsmblue wrote

I found some MOOG blue pieces that should look nice. Now I just need to measure the anti-sway bar diameters and work out the bar bushing sizes for the rear, the MOOG website does not seem to help with the rear...

I ended up buying my rear swaybar bushings from LMC because I couldn't find any Moog ones that fit. Now, my rear end is an 8.8 and yours is probably a 9" in an '82 Bronco, so they may not be the same. As far as I knew, the rear swaybars on half tons (and Bronco's?) are all 7/8". For the end links, I just bought the Moog kits...they come with the new steel link rods and the blue bushings (I'm not sure what they're made of, but they are hard like Poly bushings).

[Gsmblue]

Ah!!

My rear end is 9 inch for sure.

I measured the bar diameters the rear is 7/8 and the front is 1inch. MOOG have the front 1inch so I will have to source another brand for the rear, shame as I was looking forward to all blue bushings!

I did find these, I wonder if they will work.

https://www.moog-suspension-parts.com/moog-k8651

I found the same end link kit you are talking about and have those in my amazon cart already.  I also found the control links, the ones on Espy are red right now, so those are getting a color change!

My wife thinks I am nuts, I am burning 3 days working on Espy this weekend, and boy I cannot wait!

[Rembrant]

Gsmblue wrote

Ah!!

My rear end is 9 inch for sure.

I just checked LMC for kicks, and they show one bushing for 1980-1982, and another for 1983-1996, so the 9" and 8.8" rear swaybar bushings are definitely different. So...I guess you can ignore what I said, since my experience was only with the 8.8, and I could not find a Moog bushing that fit. However, you may be perfectly fine with a 9".

[Bruce moose4x4]

This might help.
https://www.moog-suspension-parts.com/universal-sway-bar-bushings.asp

[Gsmblue]

Ah ya beauty!

Thank you, I have ordered them up and will report back when I fit them!