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Removing rear sway bar [9 vote(s)]

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HavenSOV
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What are peoples feelings on this?

if you have done it?
how hard was it?
have you felt any major change in the driving,?
can you still haul up to 2500 LBS?
Any pics of it being done?
Any hints to doing it?

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-- Edited by HavenSOV at 17:03, 2007-09-06

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I have mine on. Rebecca has her's off. However the only reason she has her's off is because the PO removed it prior to our purchase.

I'm at 5.5" of lift and 35's and I can stuff my rear tires more than enough having the swaybar connected. I do tow a little bit with it so I do not really ever plan on removing it.

I can tell it's removed on Rebecca's XJ and I'm not crazy about the feeling on driving it on the highway. If you ask me, leave it on. You'r not going to get any amazing gains taking it off....

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In my first XJ I took it off when I put the lift on.  I noticed a little difference when driving but not much.  The lift picked up some of the play that not having a swaybar allowed.  I never wheeled it with the swar bar on so I can't say anything for that.  I will say that disconecting the front swaybar off road did help. 

On the XJ I just bought the rear swaybar was already off.  I will say that my first XJ was only 3.5 high, my new one is 5.5 and my new one rocks less and rides a ton better.  I think it matters on the quality of the lift as to how much you will notice it.  My 3.5 lift was a rough country (cheapest you can get) my new XJ has a 3.5 Rusty's lift with a 2 inch spacer (not the best, but better).  I think that it will depend a lot on the quality of lift.

It is not hard at all to take off.  If I recall it was 4 bolts all easily accessed if have the back jacked up.  Take it off, drive it for a while, if you don't like it put it back on.  I think that it only took about 10 min. to get it out and that is not me blowing smoke. 

Here is a link that I found walking you through the process and opinions afterwards:
http://members.tripod.com/Jeep_n_John/swaybar.html

-- Edited by aci4369 at 22:26, 2007-09-06

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If your really worried about it you can take the bolt out of the mount on the axle and replace it with a pin. That way you can remove (undo) it when your offroad and keep it on while your DDing it.

Something similar to this:

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I like that Idea... Can you pick those pin up some place or are they fabbed?

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HavenSOV wrote:
I like that Idea... Can you pick those pin up some place or are they fabbed?
The above pic is of my old home-brew front quick disco's. You can pick them up at your local hardware store or a TSC (or like). I'd recomend taking your old bolt in with you so you can match the same diamater.

 



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I took my rear sway bar off, i never noticed a difference
I have JKS quike disconects on front, i really notice a difference when i unhook the front

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As for removel of the rear sway bar on any rig, It's fine for flex, but at the sacrifice of you side-hilling stubility. It's noticeable but not real bad on any rig(XJ,MJ,YJ) with leafs in the rear, but it's down right scary in rigs coiled in the rear like ZJs, and TJs. Your rig will have a tend to "unload" side-hill crossing...


Plus no mater how safe you think it is if it's a DD it's a bad idea. And all you that will chime in a say "I've been driven mine like that for year with no problem.." Problems will and do happen when you least exspect it, such as a roll-over from swerving from hitting a little child that happen's to be in the road at the wrong time.

I don't mean to preach but I've been involved in offroading since I was alittle child riden shot-gun to my dad(almost 26 years now). So ust take worning when you looking at this option...

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nick_n_ii wrote:
It's noticeable but not real bad on any rig(XJ,MJ,YJ) with leafs in the rear, but it's down right scary in rigs coiled in the rear like ZJs, and TJs. Your rig will have a tend to "unload" side-hill crossing...
Just a FYI, MJ's did not come with a rear swaybar from the factory.

Also XJ's with the "up-country" package did not come with a rear swaybar from the factory either.

That being said, I agree with everything Nick said.

 



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Well prof again you learn something new everyday, those were both things I did not know...

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