need HELP with a big wig sway bar** (UPDATE)

Butch50 wrote:
... I did a lot of thinking on this (I know did you guys smell the smoke from it, I know my wife did). :h The sway bar is not intended to fix a flexing frame. It is designed for when you enter a corner or any condition that gives you body roll to the outside of the corner without a sway bar it relies on just the suspension to stop the roll. If you get enough body roll it wants to try and lift the inside wheel off the ground. Now the sway bar tries to resist this body roll by using the strength of the bar to try to keep the outside from dropping so much which then keeps the rig leveler than without.

How does the a sway bar help the frame not flex. It attaches about 18" in front or behind the rear axle (if we are talking a rear sway bar) The frame would still flex in front of or behind the sway bar mounts just the same as always. In fact the frame well flex where the mounts are also. The only way to stop frame flex is to make the frame its self stiffer. ...

That is how I understand it. Simply stated, the anti-sway bar is a torsion bar. Because it is not mounted solid, when one side of the vehicle pushes down on the anti-sway bar the bar pushes that side up. At the same time, the torque of the bar pulls the opposite side of the vehicle down. It has nothing at all to stiffening the frame.

The tire sidewall flex is a swarming action, and often is blamed on the anti-sway bar. Shocks have nothing to do with sway.

A sway bar, is actually an Anti-sway Bar. Its sole function is to deduce sway.

Wayne