what do you do with your sway bar when you quick disconnect?

[theizzardking]

So i'm putting together some quick disconnects and really want to do this right. How do you keep your sway bar up while disconnected? I was thinking some kind of bracket or taping a hole and pining it the way also what happens with the shank withe the end link on it does it just stay fixed? Would it be cooler if i made one where the whole center rod came out?

 

[rusm]

So i'm putting together some quick disconnects and really want to do this right. How do you keep your sway bar up while disconnected? I was thinking some kind of bracket or taping a hole and pining it the way also what happens with the shank withe the end link on it does it just stay fixed? Would it be cooler if i made one where the whole center rod came out?

I'd just throw it in the garbage, or leave it in the alley for the crack heads to take. :hello:

 

[manhunter]

I always lift it up off the disconnects turning it backwards until it stops and leaving it in that position. It has always stayed there without any problem. It is not loose and requires some effort to turn it forward back to the disconnects when you are ready to re-connect. In other words, it does not just hang loose and bounce around or anything due to be disconnected.

 

[4-Ripcord]

When i still had sway bars, i would rotate the front bar so that the ends would come up off the link mounts. I always removed the rear completly. But after driving for a while with them disconnected, i decided to just remove the front too. Now they are in the rafters in the barn...

 

[Pikeman]

I am using the wab fab disconnects and they pull off completely. I leave the sway bar in place. It doesn't move or drop at all and then just simply slide the end link into the hole then push it up onto the bottom pin.

 

[cj80cruiser]

I am using the wab fab disconnects and they pull off completely. I leave the sway bar in place. It doesn't move or drop at all and then just simply slide the end link into the hole then push it up onto the bottom pin.

So those frame mounts hold it in place that well? I never would have thought. Let me ask a question though....not being a smartass just trying to get its potential to drop downward and get smashed on something. Has it held up like that running into water or mud almost top of tire high?

 

[theizzardking]

I am using the wab fab disconnects and they pull off completely. I leave the sway bar in place. It doesn't move or drop at all and then just simply slide the end link into the hole then push it up onto the bottom pin.

sorry, i get what your saying the sway bar bushing is actually tight enough to hold the bar in place, cool, i may still make a bracket or have a look around in the well and see where i can pin it off at,

besides that i don;t understand how this is a quick disconnect?

it would appear that you still need a socket wrench to remove this and it's no less bolts to undo from the stock set-up,

as in you have to remove the top nut and the lower end link nut to get the assy out, same as the stock set-up, i'm currently looking at a way to do this without tools or at the very least just 2 nuts to tighten to re-install and a hitch pin to pull for removal.

i already have most of the dimensions figured out i'm just trying to pull all of the pieces together to make this thing work smoothly,

 

[Pikeman]

Ok the end links have a nuts top and bottom the "quick disconnects" in the front have a 19mm nut on top and a Hitch pin on bottom and takes about 5 min to pull them and another 5 to put them back on. I would agree and have thought of making some kind of retaining system to be on the safe side but the sway bar does stay in place even when I hae done some high speed stuff over whoops or bouncing off rocks.

CJ80- I don't drive in deep mud but it has held up in deep water. I do take the approach to a water crossing cautiously and go just fast enough to create a bow wave but not splash over top of vehicle like some people.

 

[theizzardking]

Ok the end links have a nuts top and bottom the "quick disconnects" in the front have a 19mm nut on top and a Hitch pin on bottom and takes about 5 min to pull them and another 5 to put them back on.

so the picture above is of the rears then? as i see no hitch pin, if this works out well i want to ship you a pair and have you give me your thoughts on them and let me know where i can improve.

i'll send you a model via PM of where i'm going with this.

 

[4Runner8]

yea its for the rears, its an extended sway bar link to alleviate stress on the rear sway bar when your truck is lifted it also allows more flex then stock shorter links

 

[manhunter]

I still have the stock sway bar connects. I can disconnect them in 5 minutes no problem and re-connect again in 5 minutes when I am done. As far as I am concerned, they are just as easy to do as the after-market "quick disconnects".

 

[theizzardking]

oh ok, that makes alot more sense now, i was trying to figure out what the heck made those pictured there a "quick" disconnect lol

 

[cj80cruiser]

CJ80- I don't drive in deep mud but it has held up in deep water. I do take the approach to a water crossing cautiously and go just fast enough to create a bow wave but not splash over top of vehicle like some people.

I don't either but I was wondering if you thought it could withstand it just in case I forgot it was just hanging there and tried something stupid which has happened before and smashed my rear swaybars up into my brake lines (not on the 4runner) but thats neither here nor there. Was just curious as to how strong the hold was.

 

[theizzardking]

I still have the stock sway bar connects. I can disconnect them in 5 minutes no problem and re-connect again in 5 minutes when I am done. As far as I am concerned, they are just as easy to do as the after-market "quick disconnects".

yeah that's kind of what my initial thoughts have been, that really the quick disconnects aren't really that quick. i have a few differant ideas on the drawing board to make it quick as possible and still be rigged enough for DD

 

[manhunter]

I think the advantage to the "quick disconnects" is that you disconnect the bottom as well and totally remove them, whereas with the stock ones, you leave the bottom connected and have to tie it back out of the way and hope it doesn't get damaged on the trail. Mine have always survived with no problem.