Okay so, there was an extremely annoying clank every time I drove over rough road and I had no idea what it was. Thanks to James we narrowed it down to the Sway Bar Links or the Control Arms. Since the Sway Bar Links only cost $36 and the Control Arms are like $150 we tried the links first. These are the pics of the old ones. Not only were they going bad the threads were also rusted as hell (they're 12 years old). I finally got to the point where I had the hack saw them off. The first one was extremely hard -- the nut barely turned and I was killing myself on it. Oh oh, also there were no lifts open so I did all of this on jack stands. Once I finally had enough room to hack saw it - I did. The second one was a tiny bit easier because one of the guys in the shop had some liquid wrench. However even after soaking it for like 10 minutes (I didn't wait very long because I was paying for stall time)I was able to unscrew it almost all the way. It finally got stuck at the very end and I had to hack saw it also. I should mention that I also took off a lot of the rust with a steel brush on the second one but in the end there was just too much.
So to make a long story short, the new ones are on and here are the old ones. Note how mangled they are and the extreme amount of rust on the end/nut. But most importantly the car no longer clunks on rough roads!!!
This one almost made it, but alas no.
This is the area with two flat sides in order to keep is stationary while taking the nut off. I sure showed that thing...
(DIGIT MACRO ROCKS!)
Alright alright... I climbed back under the car and here are the new ones installed...
