Thread: Sway Bars

They reduce sway and they reduce articulation.

If you're doing heavy laden desert trips with lots of high speed highway - install;l them

If you're looking for an pure or mainly off road truck on uneven track with low speed work take them off.

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Clive

If you want both you can get the ones with disconnects on them.

Some would argue to fit them to the rear and not to the front. That set up restricts flex in the rear to match the front making for a more balanced 4wd off-road. That assumes you stick with the factory geometry set up (i.e. the OEM shock length). If you mess with the factory geometry it can lead to inverted sway bars.

I didn’t have a sway bar on the tdi and had nothing to compare against. My TD5 has one on the rear, I run stand suspension on the front and air springs on the rear......I think a swag bar has its place for a tourer.

My td5 dosnt have them.
Its just a tourer and i dont feel that i really need them.
If i had a car with them though id wouldnt remove them.

My D1 has a 50mm lift, and the standard sway bars used to invert themselves all the time. Added 50mm spacers and problem solvered.
The ride difference with it loaded for touring is huge! I wouldn't be without them.

Originally Posted by MLD

Some would argue to fit them to the rear and not to the front. That set up restricts flex in the rear to match the front making for a more balanced 4wd off-road. That assumes you stick with the factory geometry set up (i.e. the OEM shock length). If you mess with the factory geometry it can lead to inverted sway bars.

Unless a car is designed from the factory to not have a front bar and have a rear bar, and i cant think of one like that, its generally considered unsafe because it generally promotes oversteer.