Does the rear swaybar negate the need for limit straps?

[SDmtnbkr]

SHORT VERSION:
Does anyone know if the rear sway bar (with extensions), will limit droop enough to stop Kings w/OME 890 coils from bottoming out?

Long:
I installed King's front and rear with OME 890 coils last year, and ditched my rear swaybar. I partially daily drive it in San Diego, and have never noticed the crazy body roll everyone talks about, so I've never seen a reason to put it back on. However, I was able to get the rear up on my buddies new lift in his garage the other day, and with the rear hanging at full droop I still had about 0.75in left of travel in the shocks. I thought that meant I'd be good to go, but for shits we hooked up a bottle jack and were able to reach full extension of the shocks (well close enough, I didn't dare extend them past 0.25in left of shock travel, just in case).

I realize this means I need limit straps, or something to stop the shocks from bottoming out. I didn't have my rear swaybar with me, so I couldn't install it to test and see if this would fix the issue until I can get around to doing the limit straps. For 95% of the stuff I do with the truck I think i'm fine, but I do like to drive fast, so one really good wash or unseen bump and I'm betting it could create enough rebound force to droop the rear enough to bottom out the shocks.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Just to keep some interest.... here's the truck on my buddies lift

 

[97t4r81]

I don't know, but your buddy has an awesome shop. My .2 says to get the straps, most longer travel rigs I've seen have them.

 

[theriddler]

I don't know, but your buddy has an awesome shop. My .2 says to get the straps, most longer travel rigs I've seen have them.

No kidding...what an awesome shop, my house isn't even that clean WOW! The sway bar would definitiely limit travel for a while but I'm not sure it would stand up to a lot of abuse over time. With all the money you've spent in shocks, spent a few more bucks and buy some limit straps...they're cheap enough. You can also set up the straps to stop exactly where you want them to stop at, with the sway bar it may bend the links if over travels too much or too fast. The front links get weak over time, same probably goes for the rear.

Nice build, those shocks are bad ace!

 

[SDmtnbkr]

No kidding...what an awesome shop, my house isn't even that clean WOW! The sway bar would definitiely limit travel for a while but I'm not sure it would stand up to a lot of abuse over time. With all the money you've spent in shocks, spent a few more bucks and buy some limit straps...they're cheap enough. You can also set up the straps to stop exactly where you want them to stop at, with the sway bar it may bend the links if over travels too much or too fast. The front links get weak over time, same probably goes for the rear.

Nice build, those shocks are bad ace!

Thanks for the response.... yeah I mean, I guess I know all that. Eventually I always planned to put limit straps back there, I'm just so slammed with nursing school I just wanted to see if I could get away with slapping the swaybar back on for now and not ruining my nice shocks while playing in the desert. I get so little time off right now, I'd rather spend it in the drivers seat, not under the truck. I guess I'll just slap the sway bar on for now and order the parts and start working on it on my daily allotted procrastination minutes lol.

And yeah, his garage is pretty awesome; he has all the right tools to go along with it as well (you haven't lived until you've taken off your lugnuts with a 550 ft/lbs cordless Snap-On impact gun!). It's taken him a few years to get it where it is now, but he did all the work himself, including installing the lift. The structure was an unfinished oily garage when he bought the house.

 

[theriddler]

Yeah, there's never enough time for everything...I usually put in about 56-60 hours a week and that's after cutting it back some. Don't do anything too extreme in the dunes and you'll be fine for a while.

That's awesome you have a friend with a garage like that to help you out, makes life a lot easier and working on things more bearable. SnapOn tools rule too, I have a lot of them and they're always reliable. My garage, however, is still a month away if all goes right. Having the Amish build me a 24x40 with a 12ft porch add on so 24x52ft total. Porch will be a nice place to have drink a beer or two when i need a break from working on my junk:dancin: