I had some front end noise and just unbolted the sway bar links to inspect
them. It takes about 10 minutes to get them off. The sway bar itself acts
like a spring and pushes up so you have to use a short pry bar to push
down on the sway bar to put it into position when replacing (slip one end
of pry bar under the A arm and place pry bar over the sway bar and push
down).

Mine did not have any real wear and the end joints were all tight. I did
end up driving the car with them off to see if the noise went away (it
did not, another story). Car drove like a 142 without the front sway bars.