Sway bar question

[MudRunnerTD]

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)

Damn Scotty!!

I missed that post! That sux big time mate. In Vic you would have to get the whole car Engineered as a Unit. Then additions added to the compliance i think?? Guessing

If i was to do that i think id put a cage in her first

are you back on the road yet? It was all shiny and stuff too!!

[Alitis007]

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

I think i'm thinking if how a car reacts without swaybars and not taking into account where talking 4wd's. my understanding is the swaybars help put the weight back onto the wheel thats closest to the corner ( inside wheel) for eg you turn right, the body leans to the left making the inside/right hand wheels try and lift off the ground coz the weight has shifted, the sway bar connected to the outside / left hand suspension twists down pushing the inside wheel back down. On a car you would add a strut brace to help counter the affects of the body roll but off rd you want the wheels to travel further up or down to try and keep the body level as possible while keeping maximum traction on the wheels at different heights, yeh??

Hope i made sense of did i just confuse the situation lol??

[NissanGQ4.2]

Who needs sway bars anyway, if it wasn't for legalities I wouldn't have em on.................oh hang on a sec I don't have them on

[BigRAWesty]

Ok, hopefully this works. Boadertrack details to come ba

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

[BigRAWesty]

Ok, hopefully this works. Boadertrack details to come ba

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

It didn't.. mc crap a lot keeps dumping my post in the night shift thread.. stupid app... :banghead:

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

[BigRAWesty]

Dave
Boadertrack 4x4 and fabrication
0400250734

[BigRAWesty]

Dave
Boadertrack 4x4 and fabrication
0400250734

Finally.. give him a call mate. Pretty sure he has the kits on self as a DIY job.

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

[Bloodyaussie]

Cheers Kallen but for now I am just going to go with long bars and do away with the disconnect.. may change later ??

Should the sway bar be level when flat on the ground????

[BigRAWesty]

The sway bar should be at 90 degrees to the threaded rod.. so yes, level with the ground..
Give or take a bit though..

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

[Parksy]

That was a good read GSC. Though does annoy me when it comes to all the red tape side of things.
I remember when I first got my licence, I got pulled over in my old landy. The cop started inspecting under the guards, walked around it, had no idea what he was looking at so he just walked off. Certainly didn't have a shock absorbing steering wheel, or dash, yet that law doesn't apply to this car because of the age it was made. Could legally drive it. It does my head in with how they can justify things.