2006 Lexus GX470 without Kinetic Dynamic Suspension (KDSS) Front Driver Side Sway Bar Link TRQ PSA67951

Hey, friends. It's Len here at 1A Auto. Today, I'm working on a 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser, and I'm going to show you how to do a front sway bar link. It's going to be a very easy job and I want to be the guy that shows you how to do it. If you need these or any other parts, you can always check us out at 1aauto.com. Thanks.

Here we go, friends. I've got the vehicle supported off the ground, the wheel is just barely touching, so the majority of the weight is off of the wheel. I'm going to use my 21 millimeter socket and a long breaker bar. I'm just going to break all six of these lug nuts free. I don't want to loosen them up too much. I don't want to damage my studs by the wheel cocking off to the side or anything. Here we are, all six. Now, we can raise the vehicle. We'll make sure it's safely supported. We'll take off all the lug nuts and remove the wheel.

One lug nut left. We're going to hold the wheel so it can't move around. Come on, baby. There it is. Set these aside. Remove our wheel. Set it aside so it's safe. We've got our new link. Let's just hold it up next to our old one. They look as though they are about the same length. We've got a long shaft. That comes through the knuckle. Looks good, and the shorter shaft goes through the sway bar. I would say that'll work fine. Let's get to removing this.

I'm just going to put a little bit of penetrant. Use my 17 millimeter. You can use a ratchet, or a wrench, or whatever you have access to. Sometimes the whole shaft will spin. We'll keep an eye on it. Looks like it is, so what I'm going to do, grab some locking pliers. I'm going to try to grip onto it as tight as I can. Get this so it's nice and hopefully broken free here. Try with my ratchet wrench. There's our nut. Let's do the other one. Right down here, we've got another 17 millimeter, so I'm going to put on my locking pliers. Make sure it's as tight as I can get it. Cool.

I want to be careful not to pinch our axle boot, of course. Just work it like this, get my penetrant worked in there, and then I'm going to grab my ratchet wrench. That feels pretty good.

Let's see what we can do here. I'm going to try to just see if I can bonk this out.

There's our old link. Let's go ahead and match it up to the new one. Here we go, a quick product comparison for you. This is our old sway bar link out of our 2007 Toyota FJ. We just removed it, very simple. Over here, we have our brand new quality 1A Auto part. As you can tell, they're both the exact same length. They both have a long shaft, right here, that goes to the knuckle. They both have a short shaft, over here. It comes with a brand new locking nut. You don't want to reuse the old one, another one over here. It's got everything you need, sealed boots, don't see any reason why this wouldn't be a quality part to install, so I'm going to go ahead and do it.

If you need this, or any other quality part, you can always check us out at 1aauto.com. Thanks.

Here's our brand new quality 1A Auto part. When you take it out of the packaging, you might realize it has this on it. It's just this little washer. You just turn it all the way down to the end, so it's bottomed out there, and you might notice the same down here, and we do the same exact thing. This is going to give a nice gripping plate to go up against the sway bar. Then this is going to press up against that and the sway bar, as well. Then this is going to go against the knuckle and the knuckle. Okay? We've got those locked down.

I'm just going to put it into the sway bar down here. I'm not going to go all the way, yet. I'm just going to try to get this lined up with the knuckle. Let's see if we can get it in. Both of them are in. We're going to take our locking nuts, put it on there. We got our other one, put it on the backside, here. Very nice. Now, we'll just tighten these down. Here we go, we're going to go ahead and tighten these up. The new nuts are 18 millimeter. You can use your ratchet, or your air gun, whatever you want to use. You do you, Boo-Boo. I'm just go ahead and tighten it. Give it a little bit more here. I'm going to do this one down here, make sure I turn it the right way. Tight. Tight.

Here we go, we're going to grab our wheel. Going to roll it right up our leg, lift with our abs. Nice and easy. Get that on there. Hold the wheel so it can't fall. Here we are. We've got a few good threads. We can let go, now, and grab the other five lug nuts. We'll bottom them out and we'll bring it down, torque it up. We're going to take our 21 millimeter socket. We're going to torque down our six lug nuts. You're going to try to make like a star or a snowflake pattern, basically, crisscross. You don't want to go around in a circle. All right. If you want to go around again, go around again. 85 foot-pounds.

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