Need sway bar advice
#1
Posted 24 June 2019 - 05:18 PM
#2
Posted 24 June 2019 - 07:11 PM
If you have no complaints about how your truck handles now, I’d save the money and stick with what you have.
I am haunted by waters
#3
Posted 24 June 2019 - 08:42 PM
2016 Duramax 2.8 Diesel long bed Colorado 4WD with 2011 Eagle
#4
Posted 26 June 2019 - 08:01 PM
#5
Posted 26 July 2019 - 03:41 PM
Would it be more important to get a rear or front sway bar if just getting one, which gives the most bang for the buck?
#6
Posted 26 July 2019 - 08:00 PM
I am haunted by waters
#7
Posted 27 July 2019 - 12:58 AM
Would it be more important to get a rear or front sway bar if just getting one, which gives the most bang for the buck?
most rear wheel drive vehicles already have a front sway bar
Here are some good short reads
https://www.truckspr...-sway-bars.aspx
https://axleaddict.c...ar-for-your-car
Please note that if you add a rear sway bar it reduces understeer. Most vehicles understeer by design, as the average driver can handle a car that "plows" by adding more steering input. A car that OVERsteers tends to want to hang out the tail, or even swap ends! So, if your sway bar reduces understeer... it could INDUCE oversteer. Talented drivers love a neutral handling car, and are not afraid to step on the gas when the tail starts to hang out (drifting with a camper on .... any takers???)
I'm just staying that trucks are tail happy already when empty. Beware of the changed handling when adding a big rear sway bar.
Edited by Vic Harder, 27 July 2019 - 12:58 AM.
2012 ATC Puma Shell build - https://www.wanderth...012-puma-build/
Power considerations thread - https://www.wanderth...e-power-scotty/
Building out an electrical system - So, you want to setup a good electrical system in your camper? - Electrical, Charging, Solar, Batteries and Generators - Wander the West
#8
Posted 27 July 2019 - 01:10 AM
#9
Posted 27 July 2019 - 01:24 AM
You mentioned air bags... are they plumbed separately? If they are not, they pass air between them making sway much worse. I've used Helwig products before... good stuff.
2012 ATC Puma Shell build - https://www.wanderth...012-puma-build/
Power considerations thread - https://www.wanderth...e-power-scotty/
Building out an electrical system - So, you want to setup a good electrical system in your camper? - Electrical, Charging, Solar, Batteries and Generators - Wander the West
#10
Posted 28 July 2019 - 04:41 PM
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drifting with a camper on .... any takers???
BT, DT! Only sort of on purpose. It was the kind of fun one should have, ONCE. I'm good, no need/desire to do that again. I think my wife would've rather not had the experience at all.
Unfortunately my truck never had sway bars and I never felt the need till I put the camper on. It came as a shock how much I felt it lean, thinking a rear bar may be the first step, then if it still leans a front bar.
As Vic has pointed out, only a rear sway-bar would be a disastrous move. On trucks like these the front roll spring rate should always be greater than the rear roll spring rate. Think of it this way, the axle with the HIGHEST roll spring rate will have the LEAST corning traction.
If the axle with the highest roll spring rate is the front, then at the limit the vehicle plows into corners and turning the steering wheel more is a simple correction.
If the axle with the highest roll spring rate is the rear, then at the limit it typically passes you around the outside of the turn. There is no simple correction for this that keeps you on the road and in your lane. And hopefully still on your tires.
Where does that road go?
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