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Blowing sway bar link bushings apart

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Old 08-03-2017, 12:08 AM
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Exclamation Blowing sway bar link bushings apart

Hello everyone, I have a 2005 dodge ram 1500 that I just put a 2inch leveling kit on the front, the leveling kit is the spacers that sit on top of the coil springs. When I did the leveling kit my dad and I replaced the shocks, sway bar bushings and sway bar links, (how ever to get to my point and question) I keep blowing the bushings apart on the sway bar links. Do any of you guys possibly have a solution to my problem? I am tired of what seems like wasting money by having to replace either the bushings or link almost every month. Just so everyone knows I did not go cheap with the sway bar links either, I had bought Moog sway bar links both times I replaced them. Just keep blowing the bushings apart.. I talked to a couple of people who work at shops who do lifts and leveling kits and they had told me that they have never had that issue before so they didn't know what to tell me what to do to resolve the issue.

Thank you in advance for any possible solutions!!
 
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Old 08-03-2017, 09:54 AM
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What kind of driving do you do? Are you over-torquing the bolts? Is the sway bar under tension when you install the links?

It really shouldn't do that...... (yeah, you know this....)
 
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Old 08-05-2017, 09:06 AM
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My 2005 1500 has torsion bars, not coil springs. Are you sure it's a 1500?
 
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Old 08-05-2017, 09:13 AM
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Pictures would help immensely on this one.
 




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