Sway Bar or No Sway Bar

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Remove it all together or use an extension bracket?

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Sway Bar or No Sway Bar

Post  Crazy_Jeeper_7 on Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:27 pm

I have my CJ outfitted with a Rocky-Road SOA with High Steer but my sway bar and extensions bind backwards and get pinned between the YJ Spring and the tie rod bracket not allowing me to turn. Rocky-Road suggests in their packet not to even run a sway bar since it doesn't do anything more than what the leaf springs and hydro shocks are doing.

What do you guys think? Take the sway bar out all together or fab/buy the 4" extended sway bar brackets to get the sway bar and extensions lined back up properly?

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Re: Sway Bar or No Sway Bar

Post  SUPAFLY on Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:43 pm

Get rid of it.

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Re: Sway Bar or No Sway Bar

Post  Zip on Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:55 pm

Eddie, I'm running SOA on my CJ7 w/o any swaybars, you most likely will need a traction bar for the rear axle if you don't already to prevent axle wrap.

I'm not that familiar with these linked type suspensions to talk on those, other than they break a lot Wink on the trail Razz

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Re: Sway Bar or No Sway Bar

Post  mumblewood on Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:06 pm

Ditch it.

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Thanks for the feedback

Post  Crazy_Jeeper_7 on Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:14 am

Thanks guys! It's my DD but I would think I would be more prone to rolling offroading with it disconnected anyway since I only drive to and from work in it.

It will be ditched by this afternoon!

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Post  Crazy_Jeeper_7 on Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:12 pm

I got with Rocky-Road on the problem and they are sending me a free pair of their custom quick disconnects to replace my sway bar links. They want me to try them out and tell them if that would be what they need to fix their glitch in their packaged product....they are already in the mail and saved me $150 bones. They also want me to test a re-engineered version of the sway bar that doesn't use quick discos for the daily driver folks like me....again, free!

Guess I luckily fell into this deal as the first CJ-7 guy to run their product on a daily driver that wants to keep the sway bar on for the hard surfaced commute each day.

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Re: Sway Bar or No Sway Bar

Post  SUPAFLY on Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:51 am

You're the first because everybody else knows they don't need them.

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