Sway bar question

[Bloodyaussie]

JUst ordered a plate from superior engineering to do away with the disconnect.. should be here tomorrow??

[healy]

Jonathan just fit the fronts we'll remove the rear until you sort it out, you wont feel the back as much as the front.

You do feel it when the rear is removed I just fitted my rear up again as there was to much body roll around corners etc for road use

[Alitis007]

How bloody fast are you going round corners?? All it will do is try and step out IMO

[nissannewby]

JUst ordered a plate from superior engineering to do away with the disconnect.. should be here tomorrow??

This is a viable option. As long as your happy to lose the factory disconnect then go for it. The factory disconnects only allow the sway bar to travel an extra 30mm each way.

[nissannewby]

How bloody fast are you going round corners?? All it will do is try and step out IMO

I should put you in my GQ I think you would get a little uncomfortable driving on the road.

[healy]

Not fast at all you can feel the difference

[Alitis007]

I should put you in my GQ I think you would get a little uncomfortable driving on the road.

Not really, too dumb to be scared and anyway my first car was a death trap, literally it really was! Massive body roll..

I'll hold you to it mate for when you blokes come down later in the year!

[MudRunnerTD]

Jonathan just fit the fronts we'll remove the rear until you sort it out, you wont feel the back as much as the front.

Hey George,

actually i think the opposite is true mate.

I run no sway bar on the back of the GQ and disconnects on the front and No sway bar on the front of the GUIV and factory sway bar on the rear.

I am currently chasing a GU sway bar for the rear of the GQ for permanent fix and will remove the front. My GUIV is so much more comfortable to ride in with the back connected and the front is pointless.

Most of the flex is a Patrol is in the back, plenty of guys spend BIG BUCKS trying to get the front to flex and they fail. Sway bar is nowhere near as important of the front of a Patrol. back is where its at. IMO

My2c

[taslucas]

My GQ has the factory rear disconnect (albeit stretched from the lift). I can definitely feel it if I forget to reconnect when back on half a road. I also like to have a play on faster gravel sections and she gets A LOT looser without the rear connected lol

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[lhurley]

I've run the gauntlet for some time and I know the laws may vary between states (although I don't believe they do), but 2 weeks ago from last Friday I was given a 14 day defect. Sway bars were the first thing they went for (can be verified by another member who was with me at the time). Went over the truck like a dose of salts and hammered everything (even the headlight bulbs which I was to pull out to prove they were a "legal" blue halogen). The moratorium finishes up here in a few months and they are cracking down big time. Assume other states would be the same. I have 5 separate engineering compliances now, and sway bars fitted, so "apparently" the truck is 100% legal now.

I was lucky they only defected, as the sway bars are enough ("suspension geometry alteration without engineering") to have the car taken off the road.

Your call ...

Do as Matty suggested, and others have done, and modify the factory disconnect unit (get it engineered - easy to do and cheap), and get three extended pins for the rest.

My 2c - good luck with it either way.


Scotty (Bigrig)

I feel your pain. They got me for no front sway bar a few weeks ago, not even a km from my house. No defect, just a fine.

As said, disconnects for the front, leave the rear. I have found, that the front still doesnt move as much as i would like with the sway bar still bolted to the radius arms. If you want some sort of front end movement, lose the sway bar all together. The disconnects do help though, only slightly.