Pls Help! rear endlink install problem

[HappyE30]

Hi, i have just removed my old rear endlink (Left only). I 'm currently stuck because i ccannot get the sway bar to go through that endlink which just leaving my endlink half "in" the sway bar, while the other jst hanging there. I have read that dish soap would be good? what other suggestin is nice and watch out for? any hlpe would be nice. Thanks in advance!

[jlevie]

In my experience it is dang near impossible to force a rear sway link on the sway bar with the sway bar in the car. But it isn't too difficult to install the link with the sway bar in a vice. Heating the link in boiling water and using liquid dish soap works.

[RobertC]

Dab of grease and a very large pair of adjustable pliers gets the job done in a snap.

[StereoInstaller1]

Dab of Dawn and a good shove.

BTW, real Dawn works 10X better than any other soap.

[jeffnhiscars]

I did this last year on my AWII Cabrio with the bar removed and it was not difficult. 2 weeks ago I did it on my Zinno Cabrio with the bar still in place. The 1st one went on with modest effort using my favorite "Cable Pulling Lube". The second one, however, had very different ideas. After driving me crazy for a while I took a drill bit to it and managed to just burnish the inside of the hole enough for it to go on like the 1st one did.

Not the best method but the rubber expanded so all it really did was remove some seam from the rubber mold and didnt create any drill curls as you might expect.

If you try this ***proceed at your own risk***