sway bar? aftermarket?

Post by **tazzazuk** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:15 am

can u get after market sway bars they allow articulation still. or is that point less cause that what they are ment to do? i got mine out at the moment and it seems to sway alot which isn't good at speed on the beach jumping in and out or car tracks?

Post by **lay80n** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:36 am

What rig are we talking about. You can get aftermarket designs, but in reality a swap bar is basically supposed to limit articulation to stop side to side motion. Heaps of rock crawlers run them, but their application is totally different to what you are looking at.

Layto....

Post by **want33s** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:28 pm

Post by **suzuki boy** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:39 pm

On road when i took my sway bar off it didn't make much difference but off road it made alot!

My dad used to have qiuck diconects on his jeep wrangler but as WNAT33S says i havn't seen them for the suzuki's!

Post by **tazzazuk** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:26 pm

i have a 95 serria with 235/75 on f100 rims.(small lift with oldman emu) but i took it off and now it hard to go fast on the beach don't mind body roll on the road cause the road is predictable. i just wanted like a after maket one to still allow articulation but reduce the on road sway but that i guess is not what they are design for.

Post by **fool_injected** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:42 pm

Some time ago Frank (Bitsaremissin in the Mitsi sect) made some swaybar articulators
Supose it is similar to a airlocker.
You cut your bar in half insert one of theses and away you go
With air on the halves of the bar are disconnected, air off connected solid

Think the were around $300 ea, but this was quiet some time ago

http://carl.outerlimits4x4.com/viewtopi ... rticulator

Post by **tazzazuk** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:56 pm

how do u know the pin is going to line up perfect? i could mak that manual one that is easy.

Post by **fool_injected** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:09 pm

BIIK (Buggered if I know)

Post by **lay80n** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:17 pm

I guess that when the air is applied it forces the pin through to lock them. When the holes line up as the suspension comes back to even the pin slides in and locks them till it is released???

I dont find hardly any difference on the beach or road. Nothing dangerous. That is on 32's. SPOA with soft flat springs. Basically swaybars are designed to fight articulation, so it will be a compramise either way you go.

Layto....

Post by **want33s** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:30 pm

Post by **tazzazuk** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:22 am

wat sought of beaches do u drive on lay80n. our beaches can get quite ruff and unpredictable especially for a zuk cause they never fit in the car tracks.. with that sway bar disconect do any of u know wat size pin u should use for a sierra?i think a 8mm pin (5/16) it shouldn't weeken it to much...? it looks like one end is just grub screwed and the other rotats apart from when it turns

Post by **lay80n** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:04 am

I live in Newcastle, so drive regually on Belmont South and Stockton beach. Have driven on many different beaches up and down the coast though. For the disconnects, look at the designs used on the jeeps, and just copy them. Or simillar designs for patrols and cruiser.

In the auto design, it apears that the swaybar is cut in half, and each half goes into an end of the atriculator and is clamped in it. By allowing each end of the articulator to rotate, or clamping them to each other, wouild provide the disconeecting action. Best to PM Frank (bitsamissin)

Layto....

Post by **tazzazuk** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:26 am

i live in esperance western australia some our beach are like 30km long with big granit headlands in between. some weekend we drive 70km or more on beaches. but with that diconnect i was think making one half realy thight (tap fit) and gub screw and the other side spin fit with a 8mm pin to kock it off and a greese nipple(to stop squeaking if there is any).

Post by **suzuki boy** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:35 pm

All the jeep one had was a the existing bit of the sway bar top(Long straight bit that parralel with the fron to the car!) with 2 solid bit pointing to the ground with holes drilled in it and a bit at the bottom where it attaches with another two solid bit with a hole drilled in them then just a bit of tube with holes at the top and bottom then just clip them on off!

Post by **fool_injected** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:58 pm

suzuki boy wrote:All the jeep one had was a the existing bit of the sway bar top(Long straight bit that parralel with the fron to the car!) with 2 solid bit pointing to the ground with holes drilled in it and a bit at the bottom where it attaches with another two solid bit with a hole drilled in them then just a bit of tube with holes at the top and bottom then just clip them on off!

You mean like this but with removeable links

Post by **suzuki boy** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:08 pm

Yeah pretty much!

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