Sway bars to have or not to have???

[TimmyA]

Hello hello, long time ready but like many rarely post.

I currently have both my front and rear sway bars removed. Car is a pure weekender, it rolls and sways horribly on the road.
However I have great articulation off road where its needed.

Question is do I put the front back on and leave the rear off
OR
has anyone used a kit something like this

X-eng High Performance Off-Road Engineering (http://www.x-eng.co.uk/X-deflex.asp)

And if so thoughts???

Thanks
Timmy :)

[warren9981]

I have heavy duty springs front and rear, and only run the front sway bar. Rear removed. This works fine for me.

[Spel1]

If you have decent springs and shocks at the rear you should be fine without the sway bar - I've never used one on this vehicle and its fine. The front is a different as there is steering stability involved, I would definitely keep a sway bar up front.

[rick130]

RRC's and 110's never had anti-roll bars fitted from the factory for years and years, so while it can be a little disconcerting when used to modern cars, it certainly isn't unsafe to have lots of roll.

Of course you can just fit a bar to one end only, that won't be a problem, it just changes the under/oversteer balance a little (or a lot) Just do it and see how it feels.

The other thing that can dramatically influence perceived roll is the shock absorbers.

Depending on how they are valved, some can overcome a lot of the initial roll as lots of low speed valving reduces the rate of roll (but not absolute roll)

Bilsteins and Koni's are good at this, not sure on other brands.

[finallyrangie]

might be an idea to put sway bar disconnects on and keep the bars for road driving, I made myself some for next to nothing and kept the bars on, legal requirement and all that, but mine is a daily driver.

[Gary S11]

might be an idea to put sway bar disconnects on and keep the bars for road driving, I made myself some for next to nothing and kept the bars on, legal requirement and all that, but mine is a daily driver.
Hi where the disconnects hard to make? And do you have a write up how any where?.Gary

[AFC1]

Hi
What about air bags pumped up for road & let down for the dirt/sand?
Have this set up on an 81 2 door rrc,
Works.

Paul

[dullbird]

might be an idea to put sway bar disconnects on and keep the bars for road driving, I made myself some for next to nothing and kept the bars on, legal requirement and all that, but mine is a daily driver.


yep x2 to gary

were they hard ot make because i Hvae looked and looked for disconnects the xeng stuff is too expensive for me...

[finallyrangie]

sway bar disconnects were easy to make, if you have a little bit of metalwork knowledge, there is a very good write ups on a couple of rover forums, they are basically a piece of bent bar with a hole in it for a split pit, I will try to find a link, do you have a welding set, or know anyone who could do it for you?

[rick130]

sway bar disconnects were easy to make, if you have a little bit of metalwork knowledge, there is a very good write ups on a couple of rover forums, they are basically a piece of bent bar with a hole in it for a split pit, I will try to find a link, do you have a welding set, or know anyone who could do it for you?

There's more than a couple of write ups with pics on AULRO too. ;)

[finallyrangie]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/01/1377.jpg
these are a couple of the ones I made (they are actually stainless as thats what we had at work but steel will work just as well) they are a piece of 16mm bar with a piece of 19mm od tube over the top to fit the bushes, you can also use a piece of 19 solid and just grind the end part down until it fits through the sway bar, I did that with my old Rangie and they worked fine to, Rear ones are easy to fit and use, front ones a bit of a pain, just harder to get to. If you try to make your own and need any help just holler, plenty of people on here happy to help with the home made stuff. good luck

[PeterM]

Nice. Do you still retain the sway bar in place & just move it out of the way?

[finallyrangie]

I just push the sway bar up as far as it will go and zip tie it to something, always planned to make a nice reciever so it would be held out of the way, just never happened, you know how it is:)