sway bar links, will a camary/solara/avalone, links fit Options

[Digndoug]

what i said, will the camery sway bar links fit?? does any one know, im looking around, and im finding alot of links that look the same, just woundering what the real dif is?? thanks

[97GTinKC]

The stock ones are 10MM diameter bolts. I made my own last summer, had a devil of a time finding heim joints in stainless with metric threads and bushings, ended up being more than the stock ones,,,still on and still doing fine though. the front ones are so short, all you need are 2 joints, 1 with male thread and one with female thread, just screw the 2 together, (had to shave approx 1/4" off the end of both to get them short enough for the front and still have room for a lock nut.) the rears can be either an internal threaded shaft with 2 male threaded ends or 2 female threaded ends with a standard 10MM metric stud from any parts store between them. seems like the front were approx 60MM center-center and the rear were 100-105 MM.
Or you could use 3/8 SAE thread ends (much cheaper and easier to find) and use a shouldered bolt to fit the holes in the swaybar and the control arm tightly, I found some of these in a box of aircraft hardware I had around, so shouldn't be hard to come up with.
Since the originals are actually a steel ball-and-socket design, I decided it was not worth the time and trouble to pursue this any further, you could probably save some money using the 3/8 SAE ends with shouldered bolts. (but I wouldn't try to use straight 3/8 bolts in the swaybay or control arm, it is really too loose a fit)