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Originally Posted by Pyral
I was looking around and it seems that my pan hard bar (or as Toyota calls it 'lateral rod'? #3 in diagram below) is rubbing against a metal bracket. I doubt it is the cause of my squeaking because it only contacts the bracket over bumps. Very surprised this is an issue because my 4runner is not lifted, most people have this issue after doing a lift.
Any bushing in the diagram above needs to be replaced due to age. The shock bushings and sway bar bushings are already ordered.
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FWIW for a while my panhard bar would cause a squeak and it was very easy to deduce by simply hanging on it and trying to shake it around like a gorilla. So if you couldn't get it to replicate by doing so I'd say it's pretty unlikely to be the culprit
Lateral rod/arm, trac arm/bar, panhard bar/link, 5th link - there's a few different names for them it seems
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