Going jeepin this weekend, but i've never disconnected my sway bar before. Is it something thats really important? If so, do i have to buy a disco kit or can I just disconnect them?

Obviously I'm new to this so any help and suggestions would be awesome.

 

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nope, you don't really need to buy anything, i think its an 18mm wrench, just pull the bolt ou that connects the links to the axle on both side, keep track of both bolts so you don't lose them, and tie the sway bar up and out of harms way. just make sure you're on level ground when connecting/disconnecting.

you don't have to disconnect either, but you will bet better flex disconnected.

good luck, have fun wheeling, and chances are whoever you're wheeling with will know what to do as well.

 

Disconnecting the sway bars will let your axle articulate more. I would highly recommend disconnecting your sway bars. This will allow you to keep more wheels on the ground more often as well as distribute more weight to the ones that are. Since you are not using lockers, this will greatly help keep your Jeep from unloading all of the torque to a tire with the least weight. With the appropriate tools, you can simply disconnect the sway bars yourself or you could pick up a set of quick disconnects($100-125) which will allow you to disconnect simply by pulling a pin. This is an excellent investment to make.

Great question... this is often overlooked by many people new to the offroad world but is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to improve performance right out of the box.

Remember though, disconnecting the sway bars is great for on the trail but is not recommended for driving at significant speed. In fact, the stock Rubicon disconnect automatically reengages at 18mph.

 

Thanks guys, that definitely answered my question

 

Disconnect the front right before you head out on the dirt. I would not recommend disconnecting the rear.

Correct me if I'm wrong but with coil suspension I was under the impression that disco'ing both can lead to rolling the Jeep fairly easily.

As they already stated, do it on level ground and it will increase the axle articulation by about 20-30%!

Have fun out there and take some pics of your outing

 

Amway Man,

I have been running RubyDoo with NO rear sway bar for almost a year and most of you have seen my pictures. I have yet to roll her BUT i also know what she can and can NOT due. She has beeen up to a 60 degree side hill and nothing yet BUT i would NOT try that for your first time out.

http://s243.photobucket.com/albums/ff229/JKkat/

 

I disconnected for the first time this last weekend on my 07 Sahara Unlimited. I had installed the RC quick disco's. Since the info is scattered on this process (and I was a newbie) I will include some observations.

1. It is quite easy. QD's make it very easy, but even pulling the bolts is not that time consuming. At first I wasn't going to do it, but thought if I don't try it now, I probably never will.

2. My biggest question was what to do with the sway bar after disconnecting it. I had a big package of 14" 75lb strength black zip ties. Since I had disco's, I used two zip ties on each side (most would say this is overkill) and ran them through the hole in the top of the Coil spring tower. It is about a 1/2" hole. 3 or 4 hours of pretty hard wheeling and nothing moved. Another JK in the group, unbolted from the bottom (no quick disco's) and borrowed a couple of zip ties. Since he still had the sway bar link attached, he pulled his sway bar up so that the link reached the radiator mount up toward the front of the wheel well, and he tied off there with no problems.

3. I bent my lower bracket (where it attaches to the axle) so drove my JK 100 plus miles home on the freeway through some fairly good corners and never felt in danger of losing control or significantly excessive body roll. In fact, the most roll occurs on slow speed turns around town.

Hope this helps.

 

I thought that was only a good idea if you had leaf spring rear suspension (ie: YJ or XJ) but a bad idea for quad coils (ie: TJ, JK, ZJ)? Maybe things have been changed for the JK but a good friend rolled his ZJ twice when he disco'd his front sway and removed his rear so he finally put it back on

What are some of the downsides to running a JK with no rear swaybar or with quick disco's on the rear?

 

I came upon this thread searching for info on disco'ing the rear. The thread looks like its going where i need it to go.

corey d