How to Replace Track Bar 2000-06 Chevy Tahoe

First, I'm gonna remove the bolt for the right side upper sway bar link. I'm gonna use an 18 millimeter socket and an 18 millimeter wrench. I'm gonna slide that out. I'm gonna use a pry bar and just pry the link out, out of the bracket. Pry the sway bar down a little bit. I'm gonna slide that out of the way. And then with the 21 millimeter socket and get on this bolt and then use a 13/16th wrench on the nut on the backside or a 21 millimeter wrench and take this bolt out.

Just keep in mind the whole rear suspension and rear end is gonna shift a little bit when you take that out. Now, normally this rear parking brake cable has holders that hold these areas of the cable. This vehicle doesn't have that. We just have wire ties. So I'm just gonna cut the wire ties. If you don't have wire ties, just remove the cable so it's not attached. Now, we're gonna take this bolt out. Just use a 13/16th wrench or 21 and 21 millimeter socket. Loosen this up. Be careful you don't want this to swing down and pull that bolt out. And there we go.

All right, now we'll take the bar, get it lined up. You can get the bolt started. Get the nuts started on the backside. Now, we have to get this upper one lined up. This might be a little bit tricky. You can take a pry bar and just pry the axle over. You can try to pry the sway bar itself as you do that and get that lined up. Just watch your fingers. That's good. And put the nut on.

All right. At this point, I'm just gonna use a couple screw jacks and try to raise up the rear suspension a little bit. Ideal if you could tighten these bolts while the vehicle's on the ground. That's the best method to do that, but it's not the easiest way to access the bolts. It's not gonna be easy to use a torque wrench. So I'm just gonna do the best I can, raise this up a little bit and just get it somewhat close. Now, I'm gonna torque this bolt. Use the wrench on the backside and torque this to 77 foot-pounds. And do the same with the other one.

All right, now I can lower these down. And now it gets this sway bar link in position and just use the pry bar just pry this down a little bit. Get this to line up, watch your fingers. Just give it a tap and take the bolt, the bolt lined up. Now, I'm gonna torque this bolt to 48 foot-pounds. Now, we're gonna reattach this brake cable, this parking brake cable. Now I don't have those brackets, so temporarily I'm just gonna use wire ties, but if you had those brackets, you're gonna wanna reattach those. Now, I'll just trim off the excess.