I will post some pics of my endlink that didn't hold the tension and broke..
Any other users having the same problem

 

what were you doing when it happened?

 

i don't even autocross my tc
I felt that something is wrong with the car but i thought that maybe new tires caused it but after hearing some knocking noises i knew that something is wrong and i thought that strut is blown, afer checking the strut which seems to be ok i checked the sway bar i grease the bushings and take a drive but the noise was still there.
I seems that the ball join didn't hold i will definitally post pics later on tonight after i take it out. I'm glad that McMaster is around so i can order stronger ball joints like in v2 dezod endlinks

 

did u properly size them? or did u just stick them on when u got them?

 

will post pics so you can see how i sized them and whats f...ed

 

yeah, i mean, if they broke under regular driving, that means you either installed them wrong, or there is a defect in them.

 

i checked them few times cause i know that you can put them different way and the ball can be pushed out

 

soooo it looked like that


and after taking it off you see the crack

 

after closly looking at the endlink i must admit this
The whole force was pushing how the red arrows goes. The yellow shows where it broke ( the other side ).
The whole stres was on the body of the joint rod and not on the ball. The problem seems to be with the swaybar ( hotchkis ) cause i couldn't set up the endlinks to face the swaybar straight forward...... i checked the second one ( endlink ) and it was bended in the same place so it would broke soon.
The question is ..If this should hold almost 5000 pounds of load and it broke maybe it's not enought. I ordered new joint rods and those hold up to 9544 pounds

 

that sucks,

 

Wow, there is deffinetly something installed correctly there.

And the rust going on under your car is insane. The sway bar and everything else is just waiting to have issues.

 

Incorrectly I mean

 

thats chicago man salt was all over the place during this winter so...
I know that the sway look like s..t thats why soon it's going to be changed for trd maybe progress don't know yet

 

that is a lot of rust...

 

Looks like a poor install.

 

Is it supposed to be angled like that?

 

Yah, I thought bolt and link suppose to go on straight

 

here is pic of my Progress endlink. (driver side)
The angle looks different from yours.

 

that's the problem with the hotchkis sway.
I tried so many lengths of endlink so it lined in with sway but thats the best angle ( smallest one ) i could get.
check the link it's from dezod website.
http://www.dezod.com/pd_dezod_motors...ompetition.cfm
The face where you mount the endlink at the hotchkis sway is at a different angle them the progress one.
If there is someone who have the endlinks with the hotchkis sway i would be greatfull if pics are posted

 

On my first set, I intalled them incorrectly, they were angled like that, then they broke. Then, on my second set I used washers as spacers to make the assembly more vertical. I adjusted the height so that the bolts going through the sway were vertical. So far no problems...*knock on wood*