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Guide rod mount and rear sway bar end links

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How hard are they to replace? I hear some rubbing when I drive through dips or humps and can feel it on my feet so that leads me to assume it's the guide rod mounts on the fronts.

However, there is also a rear rubbing sound, I think it's the sway bar links so I already have a good pair to replace them. My question is if I remove one, won't the sway bar twist and make it hard for me to reinstall it back? Should I remove both wheels at the same time (lift the whole rear end) or can I do it one at a time?

If it's not the rear sway bar links, what do you think is making that rubbing sound at the rear of the car? Subframe mounts? The car still has a good rear stance, I dunno if that should be affected by the subframe mounts.

Thanks for any help!

edit: Browsing the MB braingears site, I found this:

http://mb.braingears.com/123_DISK2/program/Chassis/32-310.pdf

But it still does not say anything if the sway bar would twist when I remove it. Tightening is 30lb ft according to the manual too.
 
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I have recently been looking into doing all of this stuff as well. How would one go about checking to see if guide rod mounts are shot? My tierod + draglink ends and idler arm are all shot. Going to do that work this week. subframe mounts would be fun but maybe not this time around.
 
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