twitchee2
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haha thanks man, gotta try something new.
Building myself some new sway bar disconects...lets see how they come out
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haha thanks man, gotta try something new.
J-money$$$
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Try running no front sway bar for me, PLEASE. Its not bad at all even on the freeway. you just have to get used to it. After driving my civic i sometimes feel my 4runner leans a tad, but thats with no swaybars.
If you have to have them then i think you should just make a beefy set of swaybar links. NOT DISCONNECTS. A front swaybar will help keep the tires weighted while offroad, and if your not planning on running trails all the time i would leave it
If you have to have them then i think you should just make a beefy set of swaybar links. NOT DISCONNECTS. A front swaybar will help keep the tires weighted while offroad, and if your not planning on running trails all the time i would leave it
twitchee2
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been running no sway bar for the last week and a half. dont like it at all. to squirly. So yes i have tried it without.
J-money$$$
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well if you run it for a month i bet you get really use to it.I dont know about where you live, but around here a hour commute to work each way is doing good, and at that rate you can get use to just about anything.
I your heart is set on discos goodluck
I your heart is set on discos goodluck
twitchee2
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Well i went back to the drawing board i think i came up with something that might work. i *think* it will clear everything but i really need to go look some more, i have the week off so i might actually have some time to really design these, i dont have access to the shop right now so no building thing week 
Anyway what do you think. I really didnt like the idea of making limit straps these are kind of limited in themselves. anyway take a look and these are by NO MEANS perfect and i have no idea if they are going to clear everything.
and the big square block is my hiem representation, didnt feel like drawing it or looking it up so i made it simple.
Anyway what do you think. I really didnt like the idea of making limit straps these are kind of limited in themselves. anyway take a look and these are by NO MEANS perfect and i have no idea if they are going to clear everything.
and the big square block is my hiem representation, didnt feel like drawing it or looking it up so i made it simple.
driffter33
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Very creative!
twitchee2
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was wayyyy busy with school. now im home and lazy with no shop so no update
Its a cool thought and I like your ingenuity and thought process! I am guessing you do a lot of off roading. My only concern it the slack that is created when you have the pin in. More joints make it more sloppy when cornering (on the streets for normal driving). Not to say it would be horrible but that rear sway bar takes a lot of the under steer and body roll out of the vehicle.
I thought of beefing mine up b/c they are skinny little things. I might build a adj link system like we did on one of my dad's hot rods.
I thought of beefing mine up b/c they are skinny little things. I might build a adj link system like we did on one of my dad's hot rods.
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twitchee2
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Thanks man! Yes there is a little slop with the pin. I have my orginal set on my truck right now because i have no other sway bar links and they are noisy and clank around. Scares my friends who dont know what it is
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LINY4Runner
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looking to sell a few sets once you get a finished product?
twitchee2
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yes, but i need to do some testing first and make sure they work as advertised haha
ive gone a whole different direction then the pics above, those are to complex.
LINY4Runner
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Count me in as interested...regardless of what you come up with, you know your schtuff
Nelsonmd
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That looks unnecessarily complex. You have the tip of the lower bar sitting there doing nothing but getting in the way of the collapsed upper mount, which necessitated a more complex shape for the upper mount.
Here is a super rough edit of your sketch which is way way easier to machine.
Just make the upper and lower mounts out of a solid rectangular block, cutting a simple hole for the bars. You can always remove material later to make a slick shape later, but you don't need the top mount to be shaped complex like that.
As it is, it looks like you would need to use a CNC to achieve the rounded side and the structural bar with radius-ed edge. That stuff is just cosmetic, so do it after you have proved out the design
Don't mean to insult your design or anything, just providing some DFM. I wouldn't want to machine the upper mount you have there, especially if I wasn't sure it would work.
As an alternative, what if you changed your original design to have a pin on both sides, and just completely removed the tube when you wanted to disconnect the link. It would be much simpler than this design.
Here is a super rough edit of your sketch which is way way easier to machine.
Just make the upper and lower mounts out of a solid rectangular block, cutting a simple hole for the bars. You can always remove material later to make a slick shape later, but you don't need the top mount to be shaped complex like that.
As it is, it looks like you would need to use a CNC to achieve the rounded side and the structural bar with radius-ed edge. That stuff is just cosmetic, so do it after you have proved out the design
Don't mean to insult your design or anything, just providing some DFM. I wouldn't want to machine the upper mount you have there, especially if I wasn't sure it would work.
As an alternative, what if you changed your original design to have a pin on both sides, and just completely removed the tube when you wanted to disconnect the link. It would be much simpler than this design.
econhonda
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twitchee2
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sounds good man. if you back sunday that would be best. I work 8-5 mon-thurs, im leaving at noon friday to go to tahoe and then back to school.
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