How does A. adding or subtracting length from your sway bar end links effect the suspension and B. should you add or subtract length from them if you have ball joint spacers? I’ve been running my truck without the front sway for a long time, well after another near miss accident on the capitol beltway Friday with my motorcycle in the back I’ve decided to put it back on till I get some quality discos. I bought my end links at auto-zone along with poly sway bushings, the end links if I can remember were just little shorter than stock, or perhaps just a little longer, either way I want to know your feelings on the length and how it effects the suspension for on and off road driving

 

bumped back..

 

I don't know for sure, but was thinking about this logically. I think that when the truck is "at rest", the end link relation to the swaybar should be 90 degrees. Here's why I think that - when your rig leans, the outside cornering end of the sway bar pushes up making the end link to swaybar relation ess than 90 deg and the opposite side is doing the opposite - the angle is opening up past 90 deg. Your swaybar twists to control body roll. That's why bigger swaybars control sway better - more torsional resistance to twisting.

Now if you have something like a Currie anti-rock setup, there are different rules because the end links attach to the swaybar in a differrent manner than a stock swaybar.

 

Cebby is right. "Optimum" would be to have the 'arms' of the sway bar level with the ground, and the links perpendicular to the ground (straight up and down.) But don't worry too much about it - you can be quite a ways off this without any noticeable effects. It ain't a Formula 1 car...

 

Did some one say quality discos? Fully adjustable to lift height and personal preference, unlike OEM end links.

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