Thread: rear stabiliser-sway bar

Im amazed you dont have other more serious concerns like Unis failing all the time with that amount of lift

Cant answer you question tho as I have a 2" spring lift. personally I would be touching the frame mounts, but thats just me.

I have a 98 disco with a spring lift of about 3" and shockies with 2" longer travel.

The rear sway bar and the links that connect the sway bar to the axle are stretched to the point where they limit downward travel (spring extension) before the stock shockies are fully extended.

From the above situation, there is a 50-50 chance as to which way the links will rotate when the wheel is pushed back up.

IMHO it is this situation (axle down travel stretching the swaybar) that flogs out the rubber mounts.

You can make a pair of spacers from say, 50 x 50 square hollow section steel, to relocate the chassis mounts of the swaybar lower. Or do what most others do and remove the swaybar.

Seeing you have replaced the rear (and front I assume) springs anyway, the roll stiffness balance of the car is altered anyway.
So IMHO just take it off.
Regards Philip A

HI

Take the sway bar out completely and put it in the shed. To be honest i think ive lost mine

I think ill just throw it in the bin lol, what a waste of new bushes i just bought, thanks all,

So is there a big difference on drive train reliability with a 3.5 inch lift compared to a 2inch lift, im thinking about also throwing my coil spacers in the bin and doing a 2inch body lift to compensate for the lose of spacers, cheers all

If you still have the rubber coupling in the rear drive shaft, it will certainly suffer from even smallish suspension lift.

Otherwise I don't see particular drive line issues.

I'm not a fan of spring spacers, unless the bump stops are lowered by the same amount, and shockie mounts adjusted to suit.

Nor am I a fan of body lifts in disco's without good reason.

I also dont like body lifts, i think they look cheap and nasty when you see yukky white blocks through the gaps of front and rear bars so i dont really want to do it, but i run 32s at the moment and they are shagged so i am getting a set of 285/75-16s they are roughly 32.8 size, im waiting for an engineer friend to finish of my extended bump stops and rear brake line then i should be ok to go out and have a very capable car with no problems. key word -should-

By saying the rear coupling are you refering to the round rubber donut thing connecting the tail shaft to the rear diff?

Oh yer, will i encounter any problems with the front sway bar, must this come out too?

Thanks for everyones help!

I only needed to trim the guards for 33" tyres on my 98 disco - no body lift when it had the old springs (near stock height) in.

285's will be a little wider, but hardly anything in it.

Yes, I was referring to the rubber donut.

I removed the front swaybar because the drive shaft would hit it.