stabilizer/anti-sway bushing

Hi Dusty R,

I know you are looking to repair your stock Ford front stabilizer bar. But if I were you, I would replace the bar completely with a heavy duty Helwig bar which does not utilize those suspension arm grommets. That gets around the problem in a different way. Yes some money and time is involved, but your 13 year old E350 chassis could probably benefit from a heavy duty stabilizer bar there.

If you look in back, you'll see you don't have any rear stabilizer bar there unless added afterwards by the RV manufacture or previous owner. If that is your case, I would order a heavy duty rear Helwig bar as well.

Both front and rear heavy duty Helwig stabilizer bars are friendly to install for the Do-It-Yourselfer. The results will benefit in ways that will surprise you. You won't regret the ~$400 investment and a Saturday afternoon.

If you are determined to fix what you have, call your local Ford dealer parts department and order a new grommet to grease up and hammer in the hole. If the other grommet has worn to an oval opening which is likely the case, buy two grommets and replace both. Any play of the bar inside the grommets renders the bar less effective.

I'm gonna say NO. Here are specs for traditional jbeweld. Doesn't include soft surfaces. While you're on that page, look at "surfaces" and select "rubber". Seems the product they offer for rubber is rubber-to-rubber, not rubber-to-metal etc.
General rule - If you have trouble with a Bushing you need a New Bushing.
I have not replaced these particular bushings, but I believe some here in fact have. Stay tuned, hopefully someone'll be along.
Might be something on YouTube...

No outer steel sleeve. I had to drive the rubber bushing in with a hammer.
The R-bushing is shaped like a top hat with the top missing.
What I would really like to know, will that J.B. Weld hold it, or do I need to do something different ?

Dusty

Should be a press fit. There's an outer metal sleeve with the rubber bonded into it, right? The metal sleeve would be the press fit. Then the bar pokes into the rubber. Not the best engineering and anti-sway performance. It took Ford from 1992 to 2007 to realize this and go back to end links in 2008. Aftermarket sway bars like Roadmaster and the much less expensive Hellwig use End Links which tie to brackets they provide to attach to the axle.