The sway bar disconnect motor hangs pretty low and isn't guarded well by the lower cross member. I decided to rotate it up inside the frame rails. If you plan on running a bumper with a recessed winch mount, this will not work. But I am making my own bumper and will surface mount the winch.

The first shots show the orginal location of the motor




You will need to drop the sway bar in order to rotate it


Then rotate it up. I bought a longer bolt, you will need about 4.5" and used the factory mount, bolting through one of the housing bolt locations. The plug in area touched the plastic shrowd for the radiator, but doesn't hit the radiator itself.



These shots show the gained clearance, gets most of the motor up in the rails.

 

Nice write up, I'm going to have to do this one of these days.

 

Agreed, that's a cool mod. I've got a front skid plate on order so I don't think I'll need to do this on mine.
But if that skid doesn't turn out to be as beefy as I expect... count me in.

-S