OEM 2005 Toyota RAV4 Sway Bar Kit

2005 Toyota RAV4 Parts Questions & Experts Answers

• Q: How to service and repair the rear Sway Bar Kit on 2005 Toyota RAV4?

  A: The first step of servicing or repairing the rear sway bar kit requires tank fuel removal. The sway bar links removal requires first disassembling 2 nuts and the sway bar link and torquing them to 44 Nm (450 kgf-cm, 32 ft. lbs.). A hexagon (5 mm) wrench should be applied to the stud when the ball joint turns with the nut. Execute this operation again for the second sway bar kit side. Proceed with sway bar kit removal by unfastening and replacing the 2 bolts and bracket along with bushing while torquing them to 19 Nm (190 kgf-cm, 14 ft. lbs.) before repeating the process on the opposite side. The downward orientation of the bushing cutout must face the interior of the paint line during installation duties. Before applying the nut to the ball joint stud in the sway bar link carry out a rotation check by performing 5 changes in direction of the stud. A torque wrench should be used to apply continuous nut rotation at a pace of 2 to 4 seconds until reaching the 5th turn for measurements and a desired turning torque range of 0.05 to 1.0 Nm (0.5 to 10 kgf-cm, 0.4 to 8.7 inch lbs. The corrective procedure for installation follows the exact opposite sequence to the removal process.