JTRATX
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Tonight was time for removal of the sway bar. I wanted to remove this for this weekends Raptor Run.
Removal of the sway bar will allow the L or R suspension components to operate individually instead of being tied together with the sway bar. In an off road environment this is what I want.
The sway bar is great for street driving and I'm not sure how it will feel on the street for the 4 days before his weekend, so we'll see.....
Removal is a 5-10 minute job and just requires basic metric hand tools.
This is the top of the sway bar end link, just stick your head inside the wheel well and you will have room to remove the nut.
For the rest of the removal jump on the ground and slide under the truck.
Now remove the lower sway bar end link:
On the passenger side you can loosen the sway bar nuts, don't remove them all the way, you don't want the sway bar to fall.
On the driver side remove both nuts, there is also a heat shield that must be removed too to revel another bolt to be removed.
Remove this heat shield bolt, it will help make the shield move around easier and not bind up.
Remove the heat shield or move to the side to reveal the last bolt that holds the sway bar on.
Re install the heat shield on the driver side and your all done.
You can also remove the sway bar bolts on the passenger side, they slide right out.
Now you have a pile of parts that look like this:
Removal of the sway bar will allow the L or R suspension components to operate individually instead of being tied together with the sway bar. In an off road environment this is what I want.
The sway bar is great for street driving and I'm not sure how it will feel on the street for the 4 days before his weekend, so we'll see.....
Removal is a 5-10 minute job and just requires basic metric hand tools.
This is the top of the sway bar end link, just stick your head inside the wheel well and you will have room to remove the nut.
For the rest of the removal jump on the ground and slide under the truck.
Now remove the lower sway bar end link:
On the passenger side you can loosen the sway bar nuts, don't remove them all the way, you don't want the sway bar to fall.
On the driver side remove both nuts, there is also a heat shield that must be removed too to revel another bolt to be removed.
Remove this heat shield bolt, it will help make the shield move around easier and not bind up.
Remove the heat shield or move to the side to reveal the last bolt that holds the sway bar on.
Re install the heat shield on the driver side and your all done.
You can also remove the sway bar bolts on the passenger side, they slide right out.
Now you have a pile of parts that look like this:
