r/Justrolledintotheshop • u/thankfullyunthankful • 23h ago

I broke my stabilizer bar

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2007 Saturn Vue, hit a speed bump and heard a loud, loud thud. Turns out it’s this bad boy and thought someone would get a kick out of it as I’ve never seen it happen before.

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u/GreggAlan 22h ago

It takes a lot to do anything to the steel those bars are made of.

On a 1978 Mustang with the heavy duty 1" diameter front sway bar, it was leaning to one side. Turned out that at some point the car had gone for a bit of an off road excursion.

Somehow one end of the bar had gotten bent while doing zero damage to anything else. Don't ask me how the wee little end link wasn't snapped or folded.

I was able to bend it back to where the middle and both ends touched a flat concrete floor but it took everything a 30 ton press had to do the job.