Sway bar bushings 2001 mcv20

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I have a 2001 camry mcv20 with the V6. Has 194000 km on speedo. I went to change front and rear sway bar bushes, and had a terrible time. Rear bushes were easy no problem there.

I ordered bushes from Nolothane. Dealer gave me 2 packages with 2 different numbers, 42983G and 42981G. I asked which is the front. Mark looked at the numbers and realised he ordered wrong parts. So he ordered another set of the 42983Gs. I went to put 42983Gs on the front and found they would not fit the bracket. Called nolothane and they said 42981 goes on front. I went back to my dealer and he was ready to send back the 42981. The 82s are listed as for the wagon. But actually go on the front of the mcv20s.

Took 20 minutes to do the rears. Took 2 hours to do the front. The 2 rear bolts for the bushes reside just 15 mm from the firewall curve. Could only use 2 types of spanners on the bolts. One small turn at a time. To get off and get bushes back on. On the front you can just unbolt the bottom bolt on the link pins. The top ball joint will allow the link to be rotated out of the way.

Tools needed on front are a small 12 mm combo ring spanner, and a long ratchet 12mm ring combo. Nothing else will enable you to access the bushing bracket bolts up front.

Front bushes on my WH Statesman took 15 minutes to change and were accessed from the bonnet with standard ratchet tools.