Ford E450 sway bar?,s

chag67 wrote:

ron.dittmer wrote:
A heavy duty rear stabilizer bar reduces the "lean" or "rocking" side to side, much like a boat rocks or leans side-to-side when in water.

The rear trac bar reduces the horizontal side-to-side rear tail wagging. A rear trac bar is especially beneficial when towing a trailer or boat where there is significant tongue weight for they like to encourage more of that horizontal tail-wagging motion. Whether towing or not, a motor home with a long rear overhang will benefit from a rear trac bar, much more than a rig with a short rear overhang because a long overhang can act much in the same manner as if towing a large trailer.

Our rig has a long rear overhang in proportion to the wheel base, hence it was recommended we get a rear trac bar.

Does this make sense?

That makes perfect sense and sounds like I will definitely need one too. I have a long over hang on the rear plus I will be pulling an enclosed trailer at times.

Is rear trac bar as easy an installation as the Hellwig sway bars?

I also saw on Blue Ox website that the rear trac bar will not work with an air bag system. I have an air bag system on my rig.

I wish I could answer your last questions, but I cannot for I just don't know. I do recall the people who installed both a Roadmaster rear heavy duty stabilizer bar and a Henderson trac bar together on my rig said they had to do something creative. I think it had to do with sharing a common mounting point. But that was 10 years ago and so my memory is fuzzy.