I have a rubi, with the right length links, it's gonna be a whole damn lot of travel before your sway bar maxes out. Like, a ton. If you have too short of links then ya, but that's dumb. The reason you disconnect both is because if your (lets say) passenger side is connected and at full droop, the sway bar would also be drooped on the driver side but the axle would be stuffed on the driver side which would lead to a whole lot of unwanted contact.

 

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No, wont work.


Leaving one connected isnt going to allow any more flex on the connected side than it would if they were both connected. The Rubicons set up is totally different than non rubies.

Where your swaybar links bottom bolt is stationary as its bolted to the axle so how are you going to get any more up/down travel on that side with stock sway bar links? The only side getting more up/down travel is the side that Disco'd. the connected side is limited to the length of the link.

And yes, if you do decide to take one off and wheel that way, you can easily rip an inner side wall by the sway bar. When dico'd your sway bar needs to stay stationary in a slightly upward position to avoid contact. If you just let them hang there you will rip a hole in your tire. Ask me how I know this

 

I have a rubi as well and I can assure you that with links that are too short, you will pretzel them over the drag link. Been there....done that.

 

Yes both sides should be disconnected. My solution was $6 of hardware at lowes to replace the stock bolts. Takes literally 60 seconds or so to disconnect and strap the sway bars out of harms way. As said before, if you only disco one side, the other end is going to be rotating around as you flex. In theory no, I don't think it would limit your flex by keeping one connected, but our tires cost hundreds of dollars. I wouldn't take a chance of poking a sidewall from something dumb like that. And testing flex on a rock or hill once and saying "nope it won't rub" isn't gonna cut it either as a test.

 

You don't need to assure me. I know. But that's not the topic of discussion here.

 

It seems you got your question answered, but you still insisted it would work, even after several replies. This question has been asked before. Do I have to be the one who says "use the search function"?????

 

I have been on this forum for 3 years and have never seen anything on this subject, thus the question. I appreciate all of the replies especially your last post which was very detailed and well thought out and yes my question has been answered. I don't believe I have ever insisted it would work but I may be wrong.
What I don't understand is why are you taking such an aggressive approach make your point?