quick swaybar question

[mavrick]

should the swaybar be able to rotate when both disco are unhooked?

 

[HaleYes]

yes it will rotate in the brackets

 

[Kejtar]

yes it will rotate in the brackets

if it's sitting in new bushings.... you'll have a hard time rotating it.

 

[HaleYes]

if it's sitting in new bushings.... you'll have a hard time rotating it.

But it should rotate with effort right?

 

[Kejtar]

But it should rotate with effort right?

Mine with about year old bushings damn near requires a prybar to rotate.

 

[cwuwildcat]

mine with 18 year old bushings rotates pretty fricken easily

 

[Muddy89XJ]

i dont have a front swaybar

 

[Kejtar]

i dont have a front swaybar

and your post helped how?

 

[mavrick]

My bushings are worn pretty good which explains why they will rotate... so is this good, bad. or who cares.

 

[Timbo]

It's good that it rotates with ease. I put in new bushings and they were in a bind and wouldn't rotate at all. I put new shocks on at the same time and thought my new shocks were really stiff. It wasn't the shocks. The sway bar bushings were not letting the swaybar move at all!!! I could not get it to move no matter what. It would flex down and then spring right back to the same position it was in before. Had a buddy try it for me and he is alot bigger than me, same result. He couldn't get it to move either.
Lubed the bushings up and now it rides much better. Figured out the new shocks are pretty nice too.
With it in a bind I guess it was working like a torsion bar.

Timbo