The Perils of Removing The Swaybar

No doubt, if shit goes down on the highway, I'll take the swaybar all day long. I hope I dont regret not having it someday.

 

What do you want to know?

 

Correction, the truck will NOT lean into the turn(it will actually do the opposite) without the sway bar aka anti-roll bar. The purpose of a sway bar is to reduce the body roll during fast corning or over road irregularities

Hellwig makes a nice bolt on kit for the front and rear. I have one for the rear and it's night and day difference. Truck feels more planted going around corners and in the canyon/mountain roads.

 

I agree. I can understand if it's a dedicated off roader then yes do it but if it goes on the road. I wouldn't, it doesn't take a lot to roll these trucks and I'm only talking about the stock ones. Picture the ones with lift kits. Top heavy.... yeah it'll roll even easier.

Some people will learn it the easy way or hard way. Your choice.

 

Just clarification on what insurance looks for in roll over accidents. Are you fully aware of a vehicles safety equipment and do you verify that it hasn't been altered, removed, or tampered with? Would a claim be denied because a sway bar was removed and resulted in a rollover accident? Is a lifted vehicle considered a vehicle that has had its safety equipment modified, since it is no longer factory and has an increased center of gravity making it inherently less safe?

 

Most highway roll overs are from "knee jerk" reactions to unexpected obstacles & events, I always drive with a heightened sense of paranoia, my point is the roll overs would've occured regardless if the swaybar were present...

 

Probably.

 

Ordered this today (with X-Runner rear sway bar):
http://tundraracing.com/tacorearswaybar.htm

 

Diff drops don't kill

 

You're no fun...

I need to do something with mine. Think I stubbed my toe on it at least twice in as many years.

 

I just turn a key and pray my rainbow farting unicorn starts up

Sillyshortwheelbaseunstablesuvproblems

My sway bar has a couple hits to it's portfolio as a "for hire killa"

Ive tried to give it away but no one wants it. Maybe one day Ill go to the scrap yard and take all the crap I have laying around.

 

x2

 

Like a deer or moose running out and hitting you...

 

I see so many deer running around the I5 corridor from my house to Seattle... I need to go buy a sway bar 5x bigger than what I have!

And the moose I saw this morning was HUGE. He was the size of a city bus, don't think I could avoid that. Oh, that was a city bus.