Who here has removed the rear sway bar on their paj and uses it as a daily driver? I have a NJ with 3" lift on rear and am thinking of removing the rear sway bar. The problem is it's my misses daily driver and i still want it to be safe on road with her and my daughter and unborn son in it.
How does it handle on road? Is it pretty dodgy on corners or is it ok? I will leave the front s/bar on as i don't feel it's necessary to remove it for offroad as there is limited travel anyway... even with the bump stops chopped.
Any info on this would be great
Cheers
Gabe
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Rear sway bar removal
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Used my NJ without one of the rear swaybar links (broke) and was to lazy to replace for about 12 months. Didn't notice any difference. Fitted new links prior to a trip into Wonnangatta earlier this year when we had the roof rack on and well loaded up. Again didn't notice any difference.
This is on a common 2" spring lift and skinny 32"s (235/85R16) and the slightly higher later model Gen 2.
Peter H
This is on a common 2" spring lift and skinny 32"s (235/85R16) and the slightly higher later model Gen 2.
Peter H
NJ Pajero 2.8TDI
Hi Gabe,
I removed mine about 18 months ago, hardly noticed any
difference on road, and I like cornering at speed
It made a huge improvement off road
I've removed the front once and it was like a "boat" on road,
but a much more comfortable ride off road,so I'm turning up
a articlulator at work
Just do it
I removed mine about 18 months ago, hardly noticed any
difference on road, and I like cornering at speed
It made a huge improvement off road
I've removed the front once and it was like a "boat" on road,
but a much more comfortable ride off road,so I'm turning up
a articlulator at work
Just do it
95 GLX LWB 2.8lt ITD Pajero
Custom Rear Bar & Rockslides
33x12.5 MTZ's ,TJM XGS shocks,Rear Airbags
Custom Rear Bar & Rockslides
33x12.5 MTZ's ,TJM XGS shocks,Rear Airbags
I'd forgotten about a previous experience.
When we had an NB (the original LWB high roof) it had a rear sway bar.
Once after rebuilding the gearbox or head (both fairly regular occurances over the 500000km life of the vehicle, and still going) on my Dad's NC I took it for a run and couldn't believe how roly poly it was. I told Dad the shocks must be buggerer. It was a few months later I reliased it didn't have a sway bar.
Maybe Gen 2s run a lot stiffer shocks due to the coil springs and the sway bar doesn't do as much.
Peter H
When we had an NB (the original LWB high roof) it had a rear sway bar.
Once after rebuilding the gearbox or head (both fairly regular occurances over the 500000km life of the vehicle, and still going) on my Dad's NC I took it for a run and couldn't believe how roly poly it was. I told Dad the shocks must be buggerer. It was a few months later I reliased it didn't have a sway bar.
Maybe Gen 2s run a lot stiffer shocks due to the coil springs and the sway bar doesn't do as much.
Peter H
NJ Pajero 2.8TDI
paj
got a shorty nj and have run it without the rear swaybar for ever pretty much. Didnt notice a massive difference onroad but did offroad. I just came back from a trip and from the pics you could probably see that paj well quite loaded up and im still very comfortable driving it like this. Perhaps the pedders hd springs help i dunno??? maybe a little bit, but yeh never been concerned enough to put it back on.
dean
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