OEM 2007 Toyota 4Runner Sway Bar Kit

2007 Toyota 4Runner Parts Questions & Experts Answers

• Q: How to service the rear Sway Bar Kit on 2007 Toyota 4Runner?

  A: Begin the rear sway bar kit servicing by taking out the wheel from the back of the vehicle. Detach the sway bar link assembly from the LH side through nut removal while keeping the ball joint stationary using a (6 mm) hexagon wrench to secure the stud. After holding the sway bar link with a wrench remove the nut and then remove the retainer together with the cushion and link before removing the two retainers and cushion from the sway bar link. Proceed with this operation again on the RH side. The removal process of the sway bar kit requires one to detach four bolts and two sway bar brackets and a sway bar kit before extracting the two sway bar bushes from the bar. The procedure for ball joint stud inspection requires performing five back-and-forth motions before installing the nut after which a torque wrench should be applied at a continuous rotation speed of 2 to 4 seconds per turn until the fifth turn reaches a torque setting between 0.05 to 2.0 Nm (0.5 to 20 kgf/cm, 0.4 to 17.7 in. lbs.). You should begin sway bar kit installation by placing the two sway bar bushes on the sway bar kit while setting them inside the sway bar bush stopper. Place sway bar bushes onto the sway bar kit before installing this bar along with its two sway bar brackets using four bolts tightened to 30 Nm (306 kgf/cm, 22 ft. lbs.). The LH standalone sway bar link installation should incorporate a hexagon wrench (6mm) to tighten the nut while reaching a torque value of 70 Nm (714 kgf/cm, 52 ft. lbs.). Use a wrench to hold the sway bar link while you install the nut and link and retainers and cushion in order that reaches a torque level of 15 Nm (153 kgf/cm, 11 ft. lbs.). First finish installing the RH side components after following the same steps. Finally attach the rear wheel by tightening it to 112 Nm (1,137 kgf/cm, 83 ft. lbs.).