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Pls post pix of sway bar disconnects

DieselWarrior

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I am wanting to build my own SBD, since ORD wants $100 for something I can build with the scrap I have laying around, minus $5 in bolts and junk.

However, I cant figure in my little feeble head how they go on... so if someone can post a pic or two of how they install, it would be a big help!

Many thanks in advance!
Andrew
 
Here is a pic of mine


































Oh yah I just took it off, it didn't feel much different, lots of folks dont' run em at all you might want to try that first :D
 
I have 8" springs, in a burb, took mine off and it rode better. Even in town and on the freeway. It will never go back on!
 
I removed mine too. The body does roll a bit more on highway on/off ramps but no more than expected and certainly way less than a lifted coil spring vehicle.
 
Bought these homemade ones off another member. The Chalet will see a lot of highway miles and not a lot off camber type stuff, so I figure I'll keep the swaybar. Top pic is driver side, bottom is passenger.


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Maybe some of the reason people notice no difference is because they dont adjust the swaybar when they lift it?

I mean, ive thought about this, and although i have no engineering background, when you lift from stock height, well call it x, the geometry is no longer the same. So if you lift your truck 6 inches from stock height, it is now x+6. I havent look very carefully at the stock swaybar mounts, but wouldnt you want to extend the brackets in some aspect so that you keep it close to how the engineers in the factory designed it?




Haha, i think about random things too much. My blue truck (77 2wd) had no swaybars and i loved how it handled. My bronze truck (83 2wd) has front and rear, and although its alot tighter in the turns, I prefer the loose aspect.
 
look over the sway bar system again. its a vary bad design for our front ends.

solid mount to frame to swing up and down thats it.

but when leaf springs flex that get shorter and longer in length.

so when its lifted and even if corrected mounting the system still wants to go up and down. not front to back like the spring wants to.

if thay had put in a piviot point link most newer systems run then the bar would work better and not limit flex and make the suspension so stiff.

i ditched mine at 31" and stock springs. never looked back. heck my prow truck with 9ft blade dosnt even have one. drives just fine.
 
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solid mount to frame to swing up and down thats it.

but when leaf springs flex that get shorter and longer in length.

so when its lifted and even if corrected mounting the system still wants to go up and down. not front to back like the spring wants to.

if thay had put in a piviot point link most newer systems run then the bar would work better and not limit flex and make the suspension so stiff.



Is that not cured with a sway disco?

A few of the times mine has been still connected and the suspension is cycled the "end link" does actually pivot

On another note, i hate driving my truck on the street with the sway disconnected, but thats a matter of prefference
 
Mine is a dailydriver, Id rather have the sway on 100% for good manors, or at least have a disco... Allowing it to have a tux on during the drive, and straw hat during the trail with just the pull of a pin. :waytogo:

If I did have bumper stickers... this would be the one:
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I thought about making my own disconnects as well. The sway bar, if connected, needs "swing links" like has been mentioned so that it won't bind as the suspension cycles up & down.

I didn't have the time to make my own disconnects, so I bought a set from Off Road Design. The price is great for a complete product. And, the disconnects that they build give you the added benefit of being a swing link, so the sway bar no longer binds.

If you still want to build your own, just look at how the sway bar mounts, and imagine a shackle type device between the sway bar & the spring top plate... that's all it really is. The ORD kit though is very complete, you won't be making several trips to the hardware store looking for bolts or pins or bushings.

Clay
 
the sway bar moves just fine as the suspension "cycles" up and down. The only direction the axle will move is backwards due to the rear shackles rotating ever so slightly while spring binding happens. If you look at the way the sway bar is connected, and sits, as the spring goes up and back slightly, the sway bar rotates upwards and back ever so slightly with the spring pack, in a circular pattern if it could.

as far as having the disconnects, i personally love them, one of THE best add-ons i have done to the truck. I have driven around town with them still disconnected after a trail run, and really don't care for the sloppy feeling the front suspension has without them, side to side squishy, rolling feeling.
I leave them on while street driving, disconnect while "wheelin" :D
 
4xcrazy said:
as far as having the disconnects, i personally love them, one of THE best add-ons i have done to the truck. I have driven around town with them still disconnected after a trail run, and really don't care for the sloppy feeling the front suspension has without them, side to side squishy, rolling feeling.
I leave them on while street driving, disconnect while "wheelin" :D
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Thanks for posting, THATS the kind of real-world feedback I wanted. :woot:
 
i have a ? about this too. so do you disconnect BOTH sides or just the right side? becuase from what i see the kits only come with one bracket to hold it up?? so you just disconnect the one or both and let the drivers side hang there and bang around on stuff?
 
I suspect that since the sway bar is one unit, you disconnect it from both sides and only have to pin it up to the frame on one side to keep it out of the way while wheelin. I got rid of mine, so I don't know for sure.
 
colbystephens said:
I suspect that since the sway bar is one unit, you disconnect it from both sides and only have to pin it up to the frame on one side to keep it out of the way while wheelin. I got rid of mine, so I don't know for sure.
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ya don't HAVE to pin it up out of the way, but it will eventually drop back down and start bauncing around on the axle makin all kinds of noise. :p:
 
I've lost count of how many threads have been on this same subject.
Before you spend any time money on these "discos":doah:jeez
Disconnect it and drive around just to see if you feel ANY difference.
After finding no difference, take it off [like most of us have done years ago.]
 
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