Sway bar delete/configurations.

[RobertTheBruce]

many people claim that removing sway bars will increase your chance of rollover( I believe this to be true), but also many people claim sway bars limit traction when you need it most. In an awd vehicle (which is primarily fwd) could you remove the front sway bar and add a stiffened rear sway bar? Thus improving day to day agility on the street and limiting roll over, and gaining traction with the rear wheels when off-roading when you need them most? Thanks in advance.

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[Tbone289]

Removing the front sway bar will alter the front/rear suspension weight transfer balance toward oversteer. Adding a stiffer rear swaybar with the front sway bar removed will alter the balance even more toward oversteer.

Removing any sway bar will increase suspension articulation, however.

 

[Whatcolortochoose]

To my knowledge a disconnected sway bar would only benifit slow speed off roading. It will allow your suspension to flex more making you less likely to lift a wheel. On the road you will just make it handle worse and be more dangerous. Off roading is why higher end jeeps and Broncos have sway bars that are easy to disconnect.

 

[mav_kev]

To my knowledge a disconnected sway bar would only benifit slow speed off roading. It will allow your suspension to flex more making you less likely to lift a wheel. On the road you will just make it handle worse and be more dangerous. Off roading is why higher end jeeps and Broncos have sway bars that are easy to disconnect.

And for all the reasons you mention, why the vehicle reconnects the sway bar automatically after exceeding a certain (pretty low) speed.

 

[Gray Goose]

Wouldn't the additional articulation result in more wear/damage to already known CV axel issues?

 

[Bwicka]

I have been running no front sway bar for at least 8k miles , but most of my off road vehicles are set up this way, stiffined rear springs and sway bar , wider track by at least 4”-5” all the way around and generally run 40 psi on the street on the 32”x10.5” mud terrains.
I have other trucks/ cars for long trips and a big truck for towing all the sway bars stay or are bigger on those as the wife occasionally drives those .articulation is the main gain , o axle issues, but I have the Tremor axles though .

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