I had been looking at the cracked and rotted condition of the anti-sway bar end link grommets on the 1800 thinking they needed to be replaced and it looked like an easy job. As luck would have it someone on the Swedish Bricks mailing list was giving a set of urethane grommets away that IPD shipped him by mistake. So I put the front end on the jack stands and started working to remove the long bolts that hold everything together. With the use of some PB Blaster the top nuts came off with little trouble but thats as far as I got. The bolt is sleeved through a spacer that keeps the two ends at the correct distance away from each other. This sleeve was rusted solid to the bolt inside and was not moving. So out came the saws-all and I cut the bolt where the grommets were in hopes of finding replacement bolts [~8 1/2" long] and somehow reusing the tube spacers. This was not to be, even after taking the OA torch to the parts afterward the tube and bolt were fused together.
So now I have to replace both parts, luckily for me someone else on the 1800 list had gone through this pain. The answer was replace everything with a set from Advance Auto Parts, located a couple miles from my house. Here is the link to the company that makes the parts that are sold at AA part # is 9.8121R.
Energy Suspension Parts
All you need to do is get the correct size for your car and they bolt right up.
the finished product installed:
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