How To Sway bar removal, DIY

[Hockster]

Does it give you more travel?

What is does is allow the left and right sides to work independently and not roll the body of the vehicle. It does not allow more travel on one side over the other... You will still have 11.5in of travel

 

[Squatting Dog]

And for me, being at top perch, it has solved alot of the front end harshness/skipping/bounce/rebound/etc.. The front end is calm again like stock/mid perch..

-Greg

 

[MagicMtnDan]

Now you have a pile of parts that look like this:

In your case it's a good thing you removed that "pile of parts" since you had a trailer hitch in there too

Good post

 

[Hockster]

In your case it's a good thing you removed that "pile of parts" since you had a trailer hitch in there too

Good post

he he he

 

[JTRATX]

My impressions on the street are good with the bar removed.

Without the bar the truck actually rotates a lot better in turns, like my M3 does on the race track. The weight transfer is much quicker and so far I like it.

We'll see in the dirt this weekend.

 

[sharpertouch]

has anyone looked into quick dissconnects?

 

[whisler151]

How did you like it off road? Are you keeping it off for street driving as well?

 

[KaiserM715]

has anyone looked into quick dissconnects?

There has been some discussion here:
http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f9/sway-bar-no-sway-bar-10356/

and here (warning, this one turned into a legal debate of not running a sway bar that had nothing to do with disconnects):
http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f9/swaybar-disconnects-ford-raptor-6095/

So it has been mentioned a couple of times, but never really seems to go anywhere productive...

 

[JTRATX]

How did you like it off road? Are you keeping it off for street driving as well?

It seemed to perform well off road, but this was also my 1st time off roading.
I would really need to drive another session or two with it on and take some corners to give a definitive answer.

When Greg Foutz was explaining the Raptor project which he was an integral part of it's inception, he said that the truck was designed to run with a sway bar so keep it on. He stated there was almost zero benefit to having it off. When you get into race trucks this is a different story, but we don't have race trucks.

With my limited experience in off road I will tend to listen to the expert and after a lot more driving and experience I will be able to tell what I prefer, for now it's back on.

 

[LSURaptor]

The truck was also designed with some flimsy ass rear springs. So I wouldn't keep it on just because he said it was designed that way. Run it however you think it feels best.