Am I in danger of an accident?

1998 CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO
130,000 MILES • 6 CYL • FWD • AUTOMATIC
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RHONDA
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what can happen if a sway bar link breaks? and bushings are bad? My boyfriend is a mechanic and of course won't help me. I married a mechanic, and he wouldn't work on our cars either!! lol what's up with that????
Rhonda
P.S. I have a 1998 Monte Carlo, 3.8 z34
Dec 17, 2010 at 2:24 AM
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A sway bar (also stabilizer bar, anti-sway bar, roll bar, or anti-roll bar, ARB) is an automobile suspension device. It connects opposite (left/right) wheels together through short lever arms linked by a torsion spring. A sway bar increases the suspension's roll stiffness—its resistance to roll in turns, independent of its spring rate in the vertical direction.

soooo if the link fails you will experience some excess body roll through corners, best get this fixed.

mark (mhpautos)

Dec 20, 2010 at 8:29 AM
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