Anyone recognize this sway bar?

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I moved my passenger side upper shock mount to back by the spare tire carrier and did shocks in the Explorer configuration. Also did the spring under and the Explorer spring plates.

 

[sgtsandman]

The way I'm interpreting that picture, it looks like the sway bar end links mount to the rear of the frame as well. So, it might fit with the Ranger factory shock setup as long as you weld the mount plates to the axle. I'm not sure on the width though. If it's made for the wider Explorer frame, there might not be enough clearance width wise on a Ranger.

 

[cbxer55]

This is the Hellwig I have on mine. Works well. I love tossing it around a curvy road. Front has also been replaced with a Hellwig. They're larger in diameter than any of the stock parts.

 

[SenorNoob]

See y'all just gotta embrace the roll...

 

[Curious Hound]

See y'all just gotta embrace the roll...

Yes! Anti-sway bars are for sissies.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Yes! Anti-sway bars are for sissies.

I do agree, I haven't had sway bars on my '90 since '10 and have zero regrets... my '97 just has the front and it handles fine for what I do, honestly I don't know why I still have the rear one on the '00 Explorer as it's just used for schenanigans anymore...

Driving slow cars fast is a good time, the wheelbase on my '97 is long so it handles weird but driving it around fast enough to get the front tires squealing still makes me giggle a bit inside...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

No regrets, I added a newer sway bar to mine. It is the smaller I think 5/8" one. Really made it much more civilized on the road, it still has ample articulation offroad and it is night and day better with the Skamper lol.

 

[SenorNoob]

That makes sense for your usage. Especially the camper. I think if I was hauling weight up high like that I'd have to turn real slow. Like under the bottom of the speedometer slow.

I love hitting a corner HARD in my truck. Like right turn at 25mph and left with the extra room to sweep around at 30mph. Which sounds silly I know.

 

[sgtsandman]

To each their own on the sway bars. Evidently, the 2011 has a particularly beefy one in the front and I added a Bronco II sway bar in the rear, thanks to @PetroleumJunkie412. I have not noticed an articulation limitation with both installed, but I haven't crawled rock with it either.

The 2019 just has the front sway bar it came with and doesn't seem to need a rear one, even when setup for overlanding. It too has not seemed to not have an artiulation problem.

I don't recall either truck having a wheel in the air, though others may have seen otherwise. The IFS front suspention on both trucks certainly do not have the articulation that a TTB would have. So, there is that.

I guess it depends on how you use the truck as to whether it matters or not.

I do like the better road handling that the sway bars provide well enough that I see no need to get rid of them and so far they haven't been a hindrance.

 

[SenorNoob]

Me not having them is mostly a case of being to lazy to put them on when I swapped axles. I actually tried it on the road without for a few weeks before I tossed them.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Mine just had a front one originally. I added the rear after the Skamper came along.

It is so planted on curvy roads there is absolutely no way I would go back.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I haul dumb things with my F350 and when I got it someone had removed the front sway bar for some unknown reason (probably because of the 4" lift) but they left the rear bar... If you've seen my posts I haul a in bed camper magnitudes worse than '85's setup, the dry weight is like 2500 pounds... then there's the trailer and junk behind it... conveniently it has isolated air bags in the back and an onboard compressor and stuff which helps A LOT. In that situation I want a front bar as the rear bar is pretty wimpy... I know I just need to ask the marketplace world but it works so I forget...

 

[Heather’s94]

1969 D100 lwb, factory front, leaf sprung I-beam axle. Takes shock bushings as end link bushings.
1985 C10 swb, factory deleted, adding one from the same 1992 K1500 that is donating its longblock.
1992 Ranger, stock install, destroyed when my b-i-l centerpunched the driver side headlight with a saw log. Core support, inner/outer fenders, firewall and frame all buckled.
1994 Ranger, as issued, needs end link bushings and will install shorter frame mounts.
1997 Ranger, see 1994.
2007 Ranger, as issued, needs a full rebush at minimum. A-arms, sway bar/endlinks, shock eyes…

And my search and rescue monster, a t-bar cranked K3500 c&c dually… Huge F/R swaybars. 12k pound gvwr, 22k pound gcwr. 1200# all steel flatbed. It has zero frame flex, and could not lift a wheel on the road if it had to.

ALL getting 100% poly suspension bushings, engine mounts if available, transmission/t-case mounts, body mounts, shock eyes, swaybar related, coil spring isolators… Anti-sway bars are just weight if your suspension bushings are “old Caddy oozing through corners” fragged…

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

My F-series trucks have no sway bar. I’m undecided if I want to add any.

My Choptop had the front sway bar disconnected for years, then I finally drilled out links to take a pin and hooked it back up. Definitely made it nicer on the street and I can pull the pins easily enough for flex.

My green Ranger I put the Explorer sway bars on when I did the drivetrain swap along with the Explorer traction bars. Big improvement on the street for cornering and all.

Traction bars/ladder bars may end up on all my trucks. Or a link suspension. Stopping axle wrap makes a difference, it helps keep the front end planted.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

And here I'm just trying to clean out my garage