How to Replace Sway Bar Bushing 2000-15 Chevy Tahoe

Now, I'm going to remove the wheel and use a 22-millimeter socket, take the lug nuts off, and pull the wheel off. Now, you don't need to remove this sway bar link if you don't want to. You can just loosen it up, use a 14-millimeter socket and a 14-millimeter wrench and loosen this up. You don't have to take it off completely. It would make it easier, but you don't have to. Now, I'm going to remove these two bolts, one on each side, use a 10-millimeter socket.

Now, I'm just going to use a pry bar and just pry this bracket off and take the bushing off. Just slide it to the side, slide it off. Now, take the new bushing, slide it over and slide it down. Slide it in position and slide the bracket on. And then, it is definitely easier to have that link off then you can line these bolts up.

So you can slide that back and forth. Get that started. And then here's the other bolt, get that one started. And torque those bolts to 24 foot-pounds. And if you took the sway bar link out, you want to put that back in. And we'll tighten this down and torque that to 89 inch-pounds. Make sure you're on inch-pounds, not foot-pounds. And install the wheel and lug nuts. Now, I'm going to torque these lug nuts to 140 foot-pounds in a cross pattern to tighten the wheel down evenly.

And just go around again, double-check.