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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by extremeethan

You want body roll take a ride in my ranger I can almost 3 wheel around turns, so much fun!
haha yea. i dont have one on my ranger and its got body roll like crazy. but offroadin alot more fun when the front wheels are autchually independant.

i would just drill another hole in the lower a arm to mount the 2nd shock. Lowered truk, i imagine you want it to handel really well. and a sway bar helps this. its yer truk tho, so its yer decision. juss pull a bolt off the bar on one side and drive it. youll see the difference
 
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 10:59 AM
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yeah i would deffinatly weld a new mount and leave your sway bar, because i know something these other people probably dont know about your truck (unless you have changed it) but your rear suspension wont like the extra body roll

if it wasnt for that i would say for sure take it off, most of the bagged trucks out there dont run sway bars so they can get more side to side movement, but once again if i remeber right you just have a front and back setup which reminds me if thats true driving without a sway bar will be very bad because since your air bags are connected when you go around a corner the air in the oustide bag will transfer to the inside bag so you really dont have much to support your truck going around a turn

but thats just my 2 cents
 
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by azmidget91
yeah i would deffinatly weld a new mount and leave your sway bar, because i know something these other people probably dont know about your truck (unless you have changed it) but your rear suspension wont like the extra body roll

if it wasnt for that i would say for sure take it off, most of the bagged trucks out there dont run sway bars so they can get more side to side movement, but once again if i remeber right you just have a front and back setup which reminds me if thats true driving without a sway bar will be very bad because since your air bags are connected when you go around a corner the air in the oustide bag will transfer to the inside bag so you really dont have much to support your truck going around a turn

but thats just my 2 cents
i was worried about the air transfer as well, because the fronts are tee'd together. that was my main concern, less the body roll. we swapped out the rear linkage for a full triangulated 4 link, so side to side transfer is 100 times better than it was in the rear.
 
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Dribone
i was worried about the air transfer as well, because the fronts are tee'd together. that was my main concern, less the body roll. we swapped out the rear linkage for a full triangulated 4 link, so side to side transfer is 100 times better than it was in the rear.
glad to hear about the 4 link

you could always just get 2 new valves and separate the 2 fronts

thats what i would do separate the front and take the sway bar off
 
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 12:52 PM
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Take it off and test drive it.

For people that haven't done it, you should really keep your myths to yourself. On a lowered truck, like his, it really doesn't make alot of diffference. I noticed it most on off/on ramps. Other than that, didn't notice it.
 
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