I've decided that I'm going to make my own quick disconnects...thanks to Chad Fraker for his post to my question of which brand to go with and he told me to save my money and showed me these plans
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I have no time to make them before trail run on sunday..... howhard is it to remove the sway bars for the run then put them back onafter??? as long as I'm on level ground this is not too bad?? or should I just run stock a few times first....remebering I'm a newbie with an '03 TJ....30" GSA's Thanks...lookin' forward to the opinions of others, Jeff
Before I put my lift on my quick disconnect kit was a ratchet with the funky torx head socket and a crescent wrench. I would get out and unbolt the ends connected to the axle and rotate the sway bar and links up and out of the way. At first I used cable ties to hold it up, until I discovered a dog collar with a quick release. I put that over the fender support and now I just clip the sway bar up.
My tool kit contains a ratchet and a 2 foot cheater pipe. I can and have removed those sway bar bolts in under 5 minutes on brand new TJ's. With the cheater it isn't hard at all.
Yup, the trick is to be on level ground. When it is time to reconnect, if things don't line up just right have a friend gently rock the Jeep side to side while you slip the parts together. One big advantage to using the stock bolts, other than cost, is they allow a little bit of misalignment. When you tighten them up they pull everything into line.
NO! Friends don't let friends drive stock Jeeps! Even if you just remove two bolts, your TJ isn't stock any more. In all honesty two mods will make your TJ a killer off road, remove the sway bar and lower the tire pressure. Cost? Next to nothing. When I first got my TJ I went to the local Jeep playground and tried a number of experiments with tire pressure high or low and the sway bar connected or not. The single biggest improvement came from dropping the tire pressure to the 12 - 15 psi range. So if you do nothing else drop your tire pressure.
Completely removing the sway bar (as opposed to just disconnecting) will make your TJ a killer on road, too. 8^P
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Just unscrew the bottom nut and bolt on both sides and swing the bar and links up towards the fenders. I've used cable ties, wire and an old dog collar to hold the sway bar up. If you want you can push the links in towards the frame if you want, but I never had any problems with them getting in the way.
It is one big massive bar that connects the two sides of the suspension together via those vertical bars or sway bar links. It is the links folks disconnect.
Mike
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