Sway bar

ScottG wrote:
Clarification, by "Sway Bar" I meant the SB or "anti-roll" bar that comes with the truck - not a trailer sway control system. Either term is correct and indeed "sway bar' is used in both my Ford and Dodge manuals.
At any rate, I wondered if anyone had installed a bigger front SB or added one to the back of a PU truck and what their impressions of it's performance were.
It doesn't sound like anyone has done so.

Thanks for the clarification.

We will agree to disagree on the correctness of the term, however, even if it is stated as a "sway bar" in the manual (and I have also seen is called such). The fact of the matter is sway and roll are two different motions. :)

I have not personally added one to a truck but have added bigger anti-roll bars to both a sporty car I had and my current Audi A4 and in both cases it made cornering flatter. It does nothing for up and down suspension rates. I see no reason why the response in the truck would be different. One thing I can offer is - when one end is stiffened against roll and the other ends is not (i.e. it is not a balanced increase) it can introduce slightly more twist in the chassis and will change the cornering dynamics making one end tend to slide more than it would before the change. That could be desired or not.

I suspect that if you pose your question in the Tow Vehicles forum you might get more responses.