Sway Bar Disconnects

I'm trying to get 10 1st Gen members to commit to buying a set of sway bar disconnects: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/group-buys/305484-sway-bar-disconnect-pirate-4x4.html

If interested, please respond in the Group Buy forum.

Thanks!

 

If I still had a sway bar, I'd be tempted, but it's gone (and $150 seems REALLY spendy).

 

What is the purpose of these? I Really dont know. Does this make it so you can quickly take on and off your sway bar? Why would you NOT want your sway bar? Help a newbie learn!

Edit: Nevermind. I googled and I learned.

 

Most aftermarket coils are stiff enough that it allows you to remove the sway bar giving you better front suspension travel. I don't recommend that you remove your sway bar while driving on the road if you're still on stock suspension. So this would do great for somebody that drives their stock truck on trails.

 

And isn't the disconnected sway bar still at risk under your truck of hitting something? I guess I've never looked at a 1st gen one, but on a 2nd gen the disconnects don't do much. You still have to pivot the sway bar out of the way and zip tie it or unbolt it to prevent it from getting in the way.

 

I would but torched my mounts off

 

This is a quote from: http://bajataco.com/quick-discos.html I didn't write this:

"I consider a disconnected sway bar to be essential for doing difficult trails with the Toyota Tacoma. The stock IFS is already a poor candidate for suspension travel, so just like adding better coilovers and/or replacement arms, we need to give it all the help it can get. When the sway bar is connected to the lower a-arms, it creates a semi-solid lever between the two front sides of the truck. Depending on what one side is doing, the other side can't act as independently as it could due to this common connection. The bottom line is that with a disconnected sway bar, you will have more independent travel, and have a better chance at keeping your tires in contact with the trail. This means better traction and stability. With a good set of quality springs and shocks (coilovers), you can drive the truck with the sway bar completely removed and not notice it much until you might need to make an evasive maneuver at a high rate of speed. The use of a pair of quick-disconnects allows you to leave the sway bar bolted to the chassis, but disconnected or connected to the a-arms as you choose. The set that I have are called "thermonuclear disconnects" and were made by a TTORA member who goes by the name of "NUKE", however, he is no longer producing them."

 

I've made plenty of evasive maneuvers with mine off over the past couple years, and I'm still alive. Yes, better springs will surely help this out. Disconnects seem like just as much work as just taking the damn thing off before a trail run.