99 Sway Bar

[Beef52751]

I installed my manual hubs tonight and noticed that the sway bar had snapped the bolt at the end.(attaching it to the susp.) I walked around and realized the other side was broke off too. I have heard of people disconnecting their sway bars before and wondered if i should even reattach it. What do you think?????
Thanks
Beef

 

[Ken M]

Your truck has sway bars to reduce body roll when cornering, and help keep both wheels rolling perpendicular to the ground. If you disconnect or remove them, you will gain body roll, but will also gain more "independence" of one wheel vs. the other on the same end of the vehicle. This is useful if you do a lot of slower-speed driving on very uneven terrain. The cab/bed will try to remain more level as one wheel rises or drops. The down side is that body roll when cornering on flat pavement; the truck will be a lot "tippier" than stock. It takes very long front swing arms/rear independent axles and really good coilover shocks to counteract the loss of sway bars. Just look at Baja 500 trucks and how they're set up to see what I'm referring to.