Kit Includes: (2) Front Sway Bar Links (2) Front Shock & Spring Assemblies
Specification
Drivetrain
Rear Wheel Drive
Location
Front
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How to Replace Front Sway Bar Link 2004-08 Ford F150
How To Replace Front Strut and Spring 2004-08 Ford F150
How to Replace Front Struts 2004-08 Ford F150
How to Replace Front Sway Bar Link 2004-2008 Ford F-150
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Tools used
15mm Wrench
Torque Wrench
Socket Extensions
Rust Penetrant
15mm Socket
Pry Bar
Jack Stands
Locking Pliers
Socket Driver
Wheel Chocks
Straight Cutters
Ratchet
Floor Jack
Okay, friends. It's time to do our front sway bar link. One thing that I'd wanna note is you don't necessarily have to remove the wheel to do this. If you're working on the ground, of course, you'd wanna use a jack stand, safely get underneath your vehicle, and right behind the wheel is where you'll find your sway bar link. If you need to remove your wheel for any reason to do this job, you're gonna torque the wheel at the end to 150 foot-pounds. With that said, let's get started.
I like to use a little bit of penetrant on any of the areas I'm going to be removing. We're gonna remove that top nut, and then down along the bottom of the control arm, there's another nut. Spray those down, let them sit. Next, I'm going to use a 15-millimeter wrench and I'm gonna come along this area of the sway bar link. It should have a hexagon there for us to grab on to. Use a 15-millimeter socket and remove that nut. All right, so our nut broke off which is fine because we're replacing this anyway. So now to get the lower nut off of there, there's something you have to pay attention to. As you try to spin it, and it finally breaks free, it's actually gonna spin the joint right up here. What I like to do is, you can either use a razor blade or a nice pair of cutters and get this boot right out of there.
The next thing we'll do is grab right onto it with some locking pliers, and then we'll come down here and we'll get the nut off of there. I'm just gonna cut this and try to get it out of my way. There might be grease in there, so you're probably gonna want a rag. And I always like hand and eye protection at all times. There we are. Got our nut off of there. Now that we have the nut off, you can see that this moves around. The problem is it's not gonna come out of here. We need to be able to get this bar up. So, it's always a great idea to remove and replace your sway bar links as a pair. If for some reason you're not doing them as a pair, you still need to go over to the other side of the vehicle and take off the upper nut. That way there we can move this bar up and down.
Now that I have removed the nut from the other side sway bar link, I can grab my bar and I should be able to move it out of the way just enough to get the sway bar link up. And then we'll see if we can pull this up and out of here. And there it is, friends. All right, friends. Now it's gonna be time to install our brand new front sway bar link. One thing that I like to note is, right down along the bottom area, it has this nice nutted area. That's gonna be great because you're gonna be able to grab onto that with a wrench and snug up the nut. Whereas the old or original sway bar link didn't have this and we had to use locking pliers. With that said, I'm gonna go ahead and get the nut off of there. I'll take the nut off at the top as well. And then I'm also gonna take off the washer, and just the top bushing. It's two separate pieces. I'm gonna leave the lower washing and the lower bushing.
Take this and put it right through the control arm hole. And then, of course, we're gonna take the rest of our sway bar link and put it up in there. Lift up that bar, put it right through there. Now, before we go ahead and put this all back together along the top, it's important to remember if you're doing both side sway bar links, you wanna make sure you get the other side in to this point as well. Because you need to still be able to move this bar around. Of course, once you've done the other side...or maybe you haven't if you're only doing one. Next, we're gonna go ahead and put our stuff together here.
If you look at the bushing, you're gonna see it has a little piton area that comes down. That's gonna be the area that faces towards the bar itself. And then of course it has the rounded edge that fits right inside that washer. We'll put this right up on here. Then we're gonna take our nut. You wanna put the area that has the lock, or the blue neoprene in there, facing up towards the top. Start that on there. Do the same to the other side if you're at this point. And now, of course, we'll snug it up. Let's torque this to 35 foot-pounds. There we are. Do the lower one...to 66 foot-pounds.
Tools used
Torque Wrench
Hammer
Rust Penetrant
Pry Bar
18mm Wrench
Jack Stands
21mm wrench
Flat Blade Screwdriver
12mm 12-Point Socket
Slip-Joint Pliers
Floor Jack
Assistant
Complete Metric Socket Set
1. Removing the Wheel
Pry off the center cap with a flat blade screwdriver
Loosen the 21mm lug nuts with the vehicle on the ground
Raise the vehicle with a floor jack
Secure the vehicle on jack stands
Remove the lug nuts
Pull off the wheel
2. Loosening the Outer Tie Rod
Turn the wheel
Remove the 21mm nut from the outer tie rod
Leave the 21mm nut on a couple threads
Hammer knuckle the until the outer tie rod loosens
Set the outer tie rod off to the side
3. Loosening the Strut
Remove the 18mm nut below the sway bar link
Loosen the 30mm nut on the bottom of the strut with a breaker bar and piece of pipe
Hold the bolt with a 27mm socket and remove the 30mm nut
Remove two of the 15mm nuts on the top of the strut
Leave the other 15mm nut on the top of the strut by a few threads
4. Loosening the Axle
Remove the hub nut cap with a pair of pliers
Remove the 13mm hub nut
Replace the 13mm nut by a few threads and tap the nut with a hammer to push the axle through
Remove the nut
Have an assistant hold the brakes
Remove the 12mm bolts from the axle with a 12mm 12-point socket
5. Removing the Axle
Remove the 21mm nut from the bottom of the upper control arm
Thread the 21mm nut on
Loosen the upper control arm with a hammer
Remove the nut
Manuever the wheel knuckle to the side without straining the brake lines
Remove the axle
6. Removing the Strut
Jack up underneath the control arm
Remove the bolt on the bottom of the strut
Pry the strut out and remove it
7. Installing the Strut
Insert the strut into place
Insert the 15mm nuts to the strut to hold it in place
Pry the strut into the lower control arm
Insert the bolt into the strut
Preliminarily tighten the nut on the bolt
Tighten the 15mm nuts
8. Reinstalling the Axle
Insert the axle into place
Insert the upper control arm into the wheel knuckle
Tighten the 21mm nut
Tighten the 12mm bolts into the axle
Torque the 12mm nuts to 60 foot-pounds in a crossing pattern
Tighten the 13mm hub nut
Torque the hub nut to 20 foot-pounds
Tap the hub nut cap into place
Re-clip and realign any lines that may have come undone
9. Reinstalling the Outer Tie Rod
Push the outer tie rod up through the wheel knuckle
Replace the 21mm nut
Torque the 21mm nut to 111 foot-pounds
Tighten the bolt on the upper control arm
Torque the upper control arm 21mm nut to 111 foot-pounds
Tighten the 18mm nut to the sway bar link
Jack up underneath the control arm
Torque the lower strut bolt to 150 foot-pounds
10. Reattaching the Wheel
Slide the wheel into place
Start the lug nuts by hand
Tighten the lug nuts preliminarily
Lower the vehicle to the ground
Tighten the lug nuts to 120 foot-pounds in a crossing or star pattern
Reattach the center cap
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks!
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the front struts. This is a 2005 Ford F-150. It's exactly the same for any 2004, the new body style, through the 2008, and probably the same for 2009 and up. We show you on the driver's side, but the passenger's side is the same procedure and we do recommend you replace them in pairs. You'll need new front struts from www.1AAuto.com, sockets from 8mm up to 30mm, a pipe or a breaker bar for leverage, a 12mm 12-point socket, 18mm and 21mm wrenches, pliers, pry bar, flat blade screwdriver, torque wrench, hammer and jack and jack stands.
Start off by prying off the hubcap. Then loosen up these lug nuts using a 21mm socket and ratchet and a piece of pipe for some extra leverage. Then raise the vehicle, and remove them the rest of the way and take the tire off. You want to life the whole front of the car up and put it on jack stands with both wheels off the ground. Now pull the wheel off. Now turn the wheel, and remove this 21mm nut at the top of your outer tire rod. Then once you remove it, you want to just put it back on just a couple threads.
Now hammer the knuckle until the outer tire rod drops down. Now you can remove that nut, and just set your outer tire rod off to the side. Underneath your control arm, on the bottom of the sway bar link you want to just remove that nut. You can try doing it with an 18mm ratchet, but most likely it's going to start spinning, and the solution for that is an 18mm wrench and an 8mm socket and ratchet. Then you can just remove that nut. You want to spray the bolt that holds the bottom of your strut, and then a 30mm socket. I'm using a breaker bar and a piece of pipe and break that free. Then once you get it going, the bolt will most likely spin. Hold the bolt end with the 27mm socket and take that nut off.
Then spray these 15mm nuts at the top of the strut with some penetrating fluid, and remove two of them all the way. The other one, you just want to leave on a few threads. Using a pair of pliers, remove this cap. Then loosen up and remove that 13mm nut. Then you want to just put it back on just a few threads. Tap it with a hammer and make sure it goes through. Then remove the nut the rest of the way. On the other end of the axle, there's a series of 12mm bolts. You just need to use a 12mm 12-point socket, and then a pry bar to hold the wheel. Just loosen those up.
You can also just have a helper get in the vehicle, and hold the brakes to hold the axle in place. When you remove that last one, just push the axle down to the side. Now spray this 21mm nut up here on the bottom of your upper control arm. Then remove that nut, and put it back on just a few threads. Now with the nut back on a few threads, just hammer the wheel knuckle until the upper control arm loosens up. Now just lift up on the wheel knuckle, and then remove that nut. Now you can just set the wheel knuckle off to the side carefully.
You don't want it to strain those brake hoses. Then just tap the axle and pull it out of the wheel knuckle. You want to feed the axle towards the left side towards the front of the vehicle. Then just angle it down, and pull it down and out. Now, we're just going to check up underneath the control arm a little bit. The vehicle is still supported on the jack stands under the frame. Remove the bolt from the bottom of the strut, and you can see the struts in there are still loose. Make sure the nuts on the top of the strut are removed. Pry the strut out.
Up top is the old strut. Below it is the new one from 1A Auto. You can see they're identical and they'll fit exactly the same. Feed your strut up into place. Push those studs through. Then just replace those nuts at the top to just hold it. You don't need to tighten them up right now. You're just putting them there to hold it in place. Then pry the bottom of the strut back into the lower control arm. Then push that bolt back through. You just make sure it's all the way in. Then replace the nut and tighten it up preliminarily. We'll just fast-forward as Mike goes back over those 15mm nuts making sure they're tightened. Then you can remove the jack.
Feed your axle back into place. You want to feed it back in the same way that you pulled it out. Then just angle it back down into the hub and push it in. Now you can take your upper control arm and push it back into the wheel knuckle. Once you push it through, just put that 21mm nut on there to hold it in place. Line up the axle and replace those 12mm bolts. We'll fast-forward as Mike does this. Now tighten each of those to 60 foot-pounds in a crossing pattern. You can see we torqued that one. Then you want to turn the wheel until you get the one on the opposite side. Then torque that one. You want to just repeat this process with each of them. Now replace this 13mm nut and torque it to 20 foot-pounds. Then replace that cap and just tap it into place.
If any of the lines on the back came undone, make sure you push them back in and re-clip them. Then push your outer tire rod up to the wheel knuckle and replace the nut. Then torque that to 111 foot-pounds. Now just tighten up this bolt on your upper control arm. If the stud spins, use a 10mm socket and ratchet. Then you want to torque this to 111 foot-pounds. Then tighten up the nut on the bottom of your sway bar link. Jack up underneath the lower control arm to simulate a wheel being in place. Torque the lower strut bolt to 150 foot-pounds.
Now we'll fast-forward as Mike replaces the wheel and replaces the lug nuts and tightens them preliminarily. Then he lowers the vehicle and tightens them the rest of the way. Then torque each of them in a crossing pattern to 120 foot-pounds. Then just replace your hubcap and you're all set.
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Tools used
15mm Wrench
Torque Wrench
Hammer
Socket Extensions
15mm Socket
Pry Bar
Jack Stands
Liquid Thread Locker
21mm Socket
21mm wrench
Rubber Mallet
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Socket Driver
Large Locking Pliers
Copper Anti-Seize
Wheel Chocks
Straight Cutters
30mm Socket
Ratchet
Floor Jack
1/2 Inch Impact Gun
Okay, friends. To get started on this job, the first thing that we need to talk about is safety. You want hand protection and eye protection at all times. With that said, safely raise and support your vehicle so you have your front wheel off the ground. We're gonna remove this center cover and then we're gonna remove the lug nuts as well. Get your wheel off of here. We need to get this cotter pin off of the outer tie rod end now and we'll get the nut off of there. Use your 21-millimeter socket and remove your nut. I just put this back on there just a couple threads because now we're gonna use our hammer and we're gonna hit right along here on the knuckle, being careful not to damage the tie rod. Let's get this off of there. Pull this down. Next, we need to get the mounting nuts off of the top of the strut area here. There's gonna be three of them. There's gonna be two right here where you can see and the other one is gonna be located further in. You definitely don't wanna touch this center nut in any way. So I'm just gonna use my 15-millimeter wrench because it's the easiest thing to get into this space. Put it right up on here and then, of course, a nice rubber mallet because I don't wanna damage my tool. I'll get this nice and loose. Do the same to the other two and then we'll remove the nuts fully.
As you can see, the inward nut is much easier to get from inside the engine compartment. Let's get this one right off of here. We're gonna leave one of the nuts on here just a few good threads. That way there, there's no chance that this strut can fall out. Moving down the strut, if you were to look, you're gonna see a big old bolt with a nut. Using your 30-millimeter socket, you're to go right here and remove this nut and I'm gonna hold the bolt head with some pliers. Now I'm just gonna drive this bolt out of here. Next, we're gonna use a nice long pry bar and we're gonna come right under here. Go ahead and pry and you should see it wanna separate. We'll pull it away from the control arm. You can see our safety nut did its job. Remove that nut and remove your strut unit.
Now it's gonna be time to get the strut up in here. If you were to look, you can see the area that the strut holes are gonna be so just line that up. Put this right up in here. There we are. Now I'm just gonna start on all three of those nuts real quick. I like to use a little threadlocker on those. If it looks like this needs to be twisted a little bit, you can use a long screwdriver or pry bar. Just come right through the bolt hole and then you can twist it as needed. Once you think it looks pretty good, I'm just gonna take my pry bar, and then I'm gonna push and lift at the same time. Okay. This is working its way right in there nicely.
Now we need to grab our bolts because we wanna have it ready so once we have this lined up, we can go ahead and put it right through. Before we go too much further, we need to make sure we inspect our bolt, clean it and of course, make sure the threads are nice and clean and safe. Once we've done that, we'll add a little bit of threadlocker and we'll continue. So I got the bolt cleaned up. You'll notice I put on my threadlocker like I said I would and I also put a little bit of copper Never-Seez on the shanked area here. I wanted to make sure I didn't get any Never-Seez on the threaded area though. With that said, let's get this lined up and get the bolt in. There we are. Let's get the nut on there. Now we're gonna go ahead and bottom this out and then we'll torque it down.
So next we're gonna have to torque this nut to 351 foot-pounds which, just to let you know, is a lot. Most torque wrenches don't necessarily go up that high. A lot of them only go up to 250. Torque it as high as you can. Just keep in mind the torque should be 351. That's torqued. Let's get our tie rod end back in here. Now it's gonna be time to get the nut on here. Just make sure if you've got a locking end, that's facing up. Bottom it out. Torque this to 111 foot-pounds. Torqued. Now we're just gonna bottom out these strut nuts.
So now we're just gonna torque down these nuts. Something to think about though is before you torque them, you need to either have your wheel on and the wheel on the ground with the weight of the vehicle, or you can use a jack stand but you need to have the weight of the vehicle forcing down on the strut. Now it's time to get our wheel back up on here. Start on all of our lug nuts, bottom them out, and then we're gonna torque them to 150 foot-pounds. Next, you need to get your vehicle so the tire is just barely on the ground so it can't spin. We're gonna torque the lug nuts, like I said, to 150 foot-pounds in a star pattern. Once you've torqued it, make sure you put back on your center cover of course.
Tools used
21mm Socket
15mm Wrench
Torque Wrench
Locking Pliers
15mm Socket
16mm Socket
Pry Bar
18mm Socket
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