Thread: 2004 Grand Prix Spindle Rod Squeak

you need to lower the rear sub frame to get to the bolts for the bars. keep in mine the brake line runs in the frame so dont go pulling to hard and break or kink the line. there might be a union on the d/s and you can undo the line at the pass side union to the rubber line.

i also had to un hook my cat back from the rubber mounts.

air gun is key here. by hand this will be work. large tight bolts.

I jacked up the car and supported the back by the body, then put stands under the rear subframe about 1-3 inches and allowed it to lower down onto the second set of stands. Not too bad overall if you keep that brake line in mind.

the joy, but at least i could get it aligned again. guy at the shops like who did the bars? im like i did, on my back, hes like damnnnn.

I undid the exhaust at the middle and back.. give it a little support at muffys and it'll give you the room you need.











You can see here that I supported the body of the car and mufflers are hanging. I think I used a cardboard box to support them at the back.

When I say undid exhaust, I mean the hangers for it. It was still connected to the engine.

You may also note that I was redoing nearly everything at this point, so while the brake line is visible in the above pics, the brake hose was being replaced, suspension, knuckle, calipers.... it was all off. You shouldn't have to pull everything to do the bars.

if the adjustable bars still work, you need an alignment. why its best to just swap all 4 bars at the same time at min, job kinda blows why set your self up to have to go back one day.

would need an alignment either way tho, all 4 bars replaced or not.

having a shop do it will be best, but theres nothing stopping you from trying to get them back to true till you got time or money to hit the shop.

thing is if they are that far off the tires will wear unevenly pretty fast.

be worth going over the front end before hitting the shop too. tie rods go bad its easy enough to test them out and replace if needed.

FWIW, I did all front and rear suspension, etc etc and brought it straight in for an alignment as new tires were also going on soon. Told the place, it's all new so it should be super easy vs trying to free up 10 year old parts. When I picked it up the guy said "Wow the tech said it really was new and that we all had to go check it out, that was impressive and yeah the guy loved doing this alignment"

Wish I could always do it that way.