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AH64ID
Aug 12, 2014Explorer
wintersun wrote:
Anti-sway bars help reduce sway but pickup trucks as a whole are usually driven with nothing in the bed and already have a stiff rear section and a solid axle so an anti-sway bar is not going to do anything at the rear of the truck.
Huge difference on an empty truck, even with stiff 1 Ton suspension.
wintersun wrote:
The downside to the anti-sway bar is that it can interfere with the motion of the suspension and make the ride harsher. With an empty bed and going down dirt or gravel road or washboard roads and the anti-sway bar is not at all a positive addition to the rear of a pickup truck. If I was going to drive my truck 90% of the time without a camper, and spend much time on bad roads with rough surfaces or potholes, I would not add an aftermarket anti-sway bar to it.
I do lots of driving empty and loaded on dirt/gravel roads and the rear anti-sway bar did nothing but improve the ride/handling.
Those comments do not appear to be from experience, as the opposite is what I, and many others, have experienced. They appear to be from internet folklore, as I have read them before but not from anyone's direct experience. You know, like Ford owns Cummings.
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