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Old 12-30-2011, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by NewKindOfClown
I'm one of the test subjects. I'll let you know if I die in a fiery wreck from sway bar failure
nah - I went super overkill on the materials for these - 1/2" Grade 8 hardware all around and 18-8 Stainless rod ends and 1/2" rod - mega beef.

Depending on how much work these are to put together I may start selling them as a vendor. Stronger than the JKS ones for essentially the same design, but at half the price. These came out to $68/pair for the materials.
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what are you using? threaded rod rod ends on one end and? how do they connect? never understood this.
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what are you using? threaded rod rod ends on one end and? how do they connect? never understood this.
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Originally Posted by dukie564
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Nice lol... im smellin what your steppin in now. pickin up what your puttin down... you get the idea, ill stop there lol

i always it disconnected at the bar... i like this better.
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Originally Posted by ol'DixieJeep
Nice lol... im smellin what your steppin in now. pickin up what your puttin down... you get the idea, ill stop there lol

i always it disconnected at the bar... i like this better.
yea, should be WAY easier to reconnect. I always feel sorry for my friends who have to fight their disconnects to get them reconnected at the bar - terrible idea.
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not doing anything to the XJ today... just crusin it.

Gonna get the DJ5 out of the garage and start planning on how im gonna do the frame swap to a 4x4 cj frame and keep the steering components on the same side. (right hand drive)

maybe see if she'll still start lol been a year,, should be fun.
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Originally Posted by dukie564
yea, should be WAY easier to reconnect. I always feel sorry for my friends who have to fight their disconnects to get them reconnected at the bar - terrible idea.

right i just unboled mine cause my lift was too high for my stock links and they dont line up at all after you disconnect em. lol

was actually gonna take the bar off today but i think ill keep it on and maybe go buy some stuff to make those. the bar keeps making an awful racket while i drive lol and sometimes rubs my right tire lol.

what do you do once you disconnect it let it hang there? can you tie it up somehow?
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i plan on just velcroing them to the sway bar and rotating it up out of the way
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the bar goes up and down after you let it hang unsupported. it looses the "memory" thats why mine hangs down lol took me a while to figure out what the noise was hahaha
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mine stays fine. Sounds like you need new bushings - they should hug the bar nice and tight.
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Originally Posted by ol'DixieJeep
the bar goes up and down after you let it hang unsupported. it looses the "memory" thats why mine hangs down lol took me a while to figure out what the noise was hahaha
Mines the same way lol there might aswell have no bushings cuz the bar moves freely up and down haha
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Originally Posted by harleyxj
Mines the same way lol there might aswell have no bushings cuz the bar moves freely up and down haha
well then it's not doing much lol. New poly sway bushings tightened up the handling on mine a ton.

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