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Originally Posted by rlith
Not very, far easier than the torsion bar mounts... As I keep saying your issue sounds more like the control arm bushings than the torsion bar. The torsion bar is more likely to knock over bumps, whereas your problem is clunking when turning or backing up which is indicative of the control arm bushings, and the fact that they are dry and cracked seems to confirm this.
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I can't say for sure if it is the control arm bushings, torsion bars, or something else, because I'm not there to inspect it in person, but I do know that there is a TSB out for the torsion bar crossmember being too close to one side, making it more likely to hit the frame. The symptom listed is a clunk felt in floor pan while backing, turning, and while traveling over uneven surfaces. The fix is to shim one side so that the crossmember is centered in the frame. I currently have this problem, but it isn't enough of a nuisance to fix it right now. I'll get around to it sooner or later. I'm currently experiencing a clunk while backing to the left and occassionally when I hit a bump, it hardly ever does it going forward. Swalt was the one that tipped me off to it, I believe that he had the same issue. I think that the effected models were 98+. The year model and symptoms don't apply to metallica21156, so I doubt that it is his problem, but both do apply to the threadstarter leading me to believe it is most likely the cause of his problems.