Rear

REMOVAL
1. Raise vehicle on jack stands or centered on a frame contact type hoist. Refer to Vehicle Lifting.






2. Install a thin wrench on the hex of the attaching link stud to keep the stud from turning in the link. Next, remove the nut from the stabilizer bar to strut assembly attaching link stud at the stabilizer bar. Remove the link from the stabilizer bar. Repeat this procedure on the other side of the vehicle for the other attaching link.






3. Remove the screw securing the brake tubes to the left stabilizer bar isolator bushing retainer.
4. Remove the 2 bolts attaching each of the 2 stabilizer bar isolator bushing retainers to the frame rails (the 2 rearward attaching bolts also attach the front corners of the rear suspension crossmember in place). Remove the stabilizer bar from the vehicle.
5. Mount the stabilizer bar in a soft jawed vise with one of the two bushings mount just above the vise jaws.
6. Carefully pry back the retainer tabs on the wider end of the upper bushing retainer away from the lower half.







7. Using a hammer and a brass drift punch, tap the upper half of the bushing retainer assembly forward, off of the lower half and bushing.
8. Remove the lower half of the bushing retainer from the bushing.
9. Remove the bushing from the stabilizer bar. Make note that the slit in the bushing points toward the front of the vehicle.
10. Remove the stabilizer bar from the vise, and repeat the preceding 5 steps to remove the second bushing from the other side of the stabilizer bar.

INSPECTION
Inspect the bushings and retainers for cracks and or distortion. If any signs appear, these pieces should be replaced.

INSTALLATION
1. Install the bushings onto the stabilizer bar. Make sure that the slit in the bushing points toward the front of the vehicle.
2. Mount the stabilizer bar in the soft jawed vise with the bushing just above the top of the vise jaws.
3. Install the lower half of the retainer onto the bushing with the elongated mounting hole towards the front of the vehicle.






4. Install the upper half of the retainer onto the lower half. This is done by tapping the upper half, starting with the large end, onto the lower half with a hammer and brass drift punch. Tap the upper retainer half on until the mounting holes line up with the ones in the lower half.
5. Using a pair of pliers, bend the retainer tabs on the upper retainer half around the lower retainer half, securing the two halves together.
6. Remove the stabilizer bar from the vise, and repeat the preceding 5 steps to install the second bushing and retainer on the other side of the stabilizer bar.
7. Position the rear stabilizer bar in position between the frame rails. Install the 4 bolts attaching both stabilizer bar isolator bushing retainers to the frame rails (the 2 rearward attaching bolts attach the front corners of the rear suspension crossmember in place). Tighten the forward stabilizer bar isolator bushing retainer attaching bolts to 40 Nm (30 ft. lbs.). Tighten the 2 rearward stabilizer bar isolator bushing retainer attaching bolts (which also serve as the forward rear crossmember attaching bolts) to 100 Nm (75 ft. lbs.).
8. Install the screw securing the brake tubes to the left stabilizer bar isolator bushing retainer.
9. Install both stabilizer bar attaching links onto stabilizer bar. Install both stabilizer link to stabilizer bar attaching nuts. Tighten the stabilizer link to stabilizer bar attaching nuts to a torque of 95 Nm (70 ft. lbs.) using a crow foot wrench and torque wrench in place of the wrench on the attaching nut. Be sure to use a wrench to hold the link stud in place while tightening each attaching nut.
10. Lower vehicle to the ground.