02-01-2019, 08:28 AM
Who you callin a fluke?!!! Seriously, though....this particular issue is really hard to detect. Since the break was buried within a rubber grommet it would be hard to visualize.
If I were to look at for this issue, I would:
1). Listen for weird noises while moving at slow speed over bumps. When I pull out of my normal parking spot, I have to travel at an angle over a gutter. I would hear strange noises so I always crept over that gutters on way out. (I assumed it was normal coach noises until I found broken bar). It doesnt make the creaking noise now (with new sway bar).
2). Look at rubber grommets x 4. If they are degraded or deformed, it might be a sign. The grommet on the driver’s side was fairly degraded and that is what I was looking to replace when the guys at Newell found the broken bar (on other side).
3). If you imagine the coach rocking from side to side....you would think that the sway bar would resist the movement. Same is true of the air springs and the shocks. Maybe worn shocks put more pressure on the sway bars. In my case, the shocks got replaced about three years ago. (Maybe the bar was broken by then?)
Finally, as much as I wanted to feel a real difference with the new bar. I did not. Adding the rear sway bar a few years ago made a huge difference, but not so much on the front one.
Bill
If I were to look at for this issue, I would:
1). Listen for weird noises while moving at slow speed over bumps. When I pull out of my normal parking spot, I have to travel at an angle over a gutter. I would hear strange noises so I always crept over that gutters on way out. (I assumed it was normal coach noises until I found broken bar). It doesnt make the creaking noise now (with new sway bar).
2). Look at rubber grommets x 4. If they are degraded or deformed, it might be a sign. The grommet on the driver’s side was fairly degraded and that is what I was looking to replace when the guys at Newell found the broken bar (on other side).
3). If you imagine the coach rocking from side to side....you would think that the sway bar would resist the movement. Same is true of the air springs and the shocks. Maybe worn shocks put more pressure on the sway bars. In my case, the shocks got replaced about three years ago. (Maybe the bar was broken by then?)
Finally, as much as I wanted to feel a real difference with the new bar. I did not. Adding the rear sway bar a few years ago made a huge difference, but not so much on the front one.
Bill
Bill Johnson
Birmingham, Alabama