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I think you are on track. My car made horrible noises when the sway bar links went. I went ahead and took the opportunity to upgrade to a TRD sway bar while I was at it. Totally worth it.
I think you are on track. My car made horrible noises when the sway bar links went. I went ahead and took the opportunity to upgrade to a TRD sway bar while I was at it. Totally worth it.
Anyone know if the 99-03 solara TRD swaybar fits the 97-01 ES?
I thought I read somewhere that it didn't fit, just wanted to make sure.
swaybar links and bushings is where I would start as well.
Replaced all of them in my 99 Camry and my sisters 98 Camry, her rear was horrible, made clunking noises over every speed bump or rough patch in the road.
replaced with Moog links and Energy suspension, no noises after that.
Just FYI, the rear Links are Same fore both sides, however the fronts have different Left and Right sides, they are the same for 97-01 Camry, 97-01 ES300.
Well howdy do, I just had the same problem crop up yesterday. The sway bar brackets sheared in two. It is probably the result of the stiffer sway bar I installed, the design of the sway bar mount on these cars isn't all that great and I suppose is not up to the task of a stiffer sway bar. The klunking is loud and was worrisome until I got out and looked.
On the 2ES the bracket is bolted directly to the body tub.
My next Lexus will if at all possible come from either a 'dry' state or at least somewhere in Canada where they don't bathe the cars in road salt every winter....
I believe that a sway bar bracket should be bolted directly to the chassis or subframe. I don't know why they chose the geometry they did but it is insufficient in higher than stock load applications. I didn't like the looks of it when I installed the bar and my instincts were correct. Oh well, relatively minor in the scheme of things but the noise was alarming, sounded like something was slamming around in the trunk or a strut mount had gone bad. Seeing the broken bracket was quite the relief, because it sounded extremely bad.