Trail damage/sway bar question

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ARC

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Today on the trail I damaged (beyond repair) one of my front sway bar connections. My solution for now was to remove the bar completely. My question is how many of you are driving without the front sway bar and what do you think of it for road manners?
 
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It's manageable and I currently have both sway bars removed... But none the less it's unsafe... In the event you have to make an emergency maneuver or high speed turn you better be good at driving
 
ARC said:
Today on the trail I damaged (beyond repair) one of my front sway bar connections. My solution for now was to remove the bar completely. My question is how many of you are driving without the front sway bar and what do you think of it for road manners?
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I actually broke my sway bar end-link wheeling. Cracked in half WTF right?
 
I tend to run with a few gen3 owners, and they have there front SB on. They just disconnect them on the front links while airing down due to better articulation.
 
A.Wilson013 said:
I went without my front swaybar for a few days... It's back on now.

I'll be keeping it on.
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Honesty so far I haven't noticed it's missing, but haven't had to do any hard evasive maneuvers. I think I am going to keep driving as is for a while before looking for replacement parts.
 
Every independent front suspension truck I have owned I have tore front sway bar links. Was under the wifes expedition last week and saw one side swap bar link has been torn for what looks like a very long time. I always test the flex of a vehicle and tend to hear a very loud pop everytime I do it. LOL.
 
I only run rears on mine. The majority of your body is going to come from the rear anyway. The front has very minimum body roll compared to the rear.

If any of you are needing to replace your sway bar links. Check out my group buy going on right now. These are some beefy links that really hold up. I'm running rears only in the video from Lone Star this past weekend.

Never mind my babbling wife in the back ground. This was her first time out.

 
I drive on the road with both swaybars. I am running extended rear swaybar links (stock 2nd gen links) so I leave those on when offroad. For the front, I typically just remove the link one side. The one link left attached prevents the swaybar from falling down into the lower control arms and saves the hassle and time of removing the entire sway bar. With only one link attached, the swaybar pretty much does nothing in terms of limiting the suspension on either side. I get pretty good compression/ extension with this setup:

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I drove mine with the front swaybar off for about a month on and off road.
Couldn't tell much difference off road and didn't like the body roll on road.
Now They both stay on weather i'm just driving or wheeling.
 
I run both F&R sway bars on road. But I drive mine daily and about 50% of that is interstate. I ran no sway bars for about a week & had to swerve to miss a tractor trailer retread...and with no swaybars the body roll was very unsettling. Not cool, so I put mine back on.

I usually disconnect &/or remove my rear one while offroading. The flex you get when disconnected in the rear is awesome. Even with no rear locker, I'm able to go lots of places that surprise me due to the rear axle flexing as well as it does.
 
BrandonF said:
I drive on the road with both swaybars. I am running extended rear swaybar links (stock 2nd gen links) so I leave those on when offroad. For the front, I typically just remove the link one side. The one link left attached prevents the swaybar from falling down into the lower control arms and saves the hassle and time of removing the entire sway bar. With only one link attached, the swaybar pretty much does nothing in terms of limiting the suspension on either side. I get pretty good compression/ extension with this setup:
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Where'd you pick the your stock 2nd gen links? I need to pick up some pretty soon.
 
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