[Schmidthappens2]

hey, maybe this is a stupid question. i've been haveing a lot of trouple with my sway bar. it keeps sliding so one side grinds against the frame. my buddies with pick ups said they took their sway bar completly off. they drive on the street normally with out it. is this safe to do with my jeep? just get rid of the sway bar?

[MayRoll]

Safe?.... I wouldn't. High speed maneuvering is not advised without the added spring rate. Try this.

[fullhouse]

getting rid of it permanently is not safe for jeep. I suggest try to move it out and see what will happen if it work out fine, its great. I mean run an experiment. Trial and error.

[Schmidthappens2]

hey thanks for that link. i just ordered two and overnighted them so hopfully i'll know how they work latter this week. im gunna see how it drives without the sway bar just for ****s and giggles. it just doesnt seem that safe though. lol. so once again thanks.

[prd_cdn]

Why do you say its not safe? I've had my front sway bar off for over 6 months now. I have not noticed a difference.

The sway bar is for body roll, when you corner, your axles are still on the ground. For me, I've noticed that when I go over normal ruts and bumps in the road, they are not as rough as they used to be since the swaybar has been off.

Its a jeep its not meant to be driven like a ferrari!!! I have yet to have a moment of 'scaredness'

[rockjockjeeper]

I ran my tj without a front sway bar just because one of my jks links broke. I drove it everyday to school and for work and it never bothered me. I could definitley tell it was disconnected but it didn't bother me enough to buy new links right away. Haha

[Jerry Bransford]

While it's ok to remove the antiswaybars off leaf spring Jeeps like the YJ and CJ, it's not recommended for the coil spring TJ which is simply not stable sitting on top of coil springs. At least leaf springs provide some lateral stability which coil springs do not.

And while some new Jeepers like to remove the antiswaybars on their TJs thinking it's the way to get more artculation, it's not a good way to do it... especially in the rear. In fact, when John Currie won the US national rock crawling championships, he had front and rear Antirock antiswaybars on his "Fireant" TJ.

[Happy Joe]

Having spent a bit of time on the skid pad in my younger/crazier days;
An anti-sway bar does little to nothing for lateral suspension support/axle location. Its purpose is to reduce body role in corners.
Lateral support for the axles is done through the suspension arms/links, primarily the pan hard bar, on TJs.
On CJ/YJs the leaf springs perform this function (yes I know that leaf sprung YJs have pan hard bars; but, when I owned one, I noted they do very little for handling and serve mostly to reduce the wheel travel off road (probably a lawyer/anti-lawsuit item). I would class them (pan hard bars) as essential for a TJ and most other coil sprung vehicles. (One exception being a properly triangulated 4 link suspension).

I have run Jeeps both ways (with and without anti-sway bars) and typically only disconnect the anti-sway bar, on my CJ, for the more difficult trails.
For a DD or for a vehicle that others may drive I would keep the anti-sway bar (disconnects are cheap and/or easy to fabricate).
When running with anti-sway bars and lockers; I don't have to be as critical when I pick a line, in many cases the anti-sway bar will transfer part of the weight from the tire in the hole to the tire not in the hole, and the locker minimizes the effects of lifted tires. (Sometimes I get lazy).
If running open diffs I would always disconnect the anti-sway bar since lifting tires must be avoided to make even simple obstacles.

Enjoy!