the swaybar endlink is frozen into the shock mount bushing on both sides in the rear. I discovered this during my coilover installation the other night.

No amount of hammering, pulling, even trying to press with shock mount out of the bushing using the hydraulic press got it to budge even slightly. I cannot remove the rear shock from the rear upper control arm until i can remove the swaybar endlink.

Anyone else run into this issue? the only option i can see at this point would be to carefully cut the endlink between the control arm and the shock, press the whole bushing out, and replace the bushing and endlink on both sides. I have new delrin bushings on order through the current group buy, but it feels very strange to have coilovers in the front and koni/PFS springs in the rear. I am hoping the bushings will deliver soon (been waiting since feb/march), but until then am i stuck? FSM page 27 for reference

 

You do realize that there is a space on the other side of the bolt where you need to insert a 14mm crescent wrench to unbolt the other side?

Figured I'd make sure you covered that basic item...

 

yea its all unbolted, its just rusted into the race inside the bushing. I actually zipped it off with an impact, maybe i'll try spinning the bolt cranking on the wrench side.