Brian Buff

Refreshing the Miata's endlinks

August 15, 2026

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My first time tackling this job myself: replacing all four sway bar endlinks on the Miata, front and rear. The old ones had seen better days — cracked boots, more play than I'd like, and the kind of clunk over bumps that makes you assume something worse is wrong before you actually look underneath.

An old sway bar endlink, showing a cracked rubber boot
One of the old endlinks — cracked boot and all.
New endlinks installed on the sway bar
New endlinks in, sway bar reconnected.

What I figured would be a quick job turned into most of an afternoon — wrong socket, a seized bolt, and more time spent looking things up than actually turning wrenches. But the clunk's gone, and I came away knowing a lot more about the suspension than I expected to.