REAL WORLD COMPARISON: OEM Anti-Sway Bar w/ Disconnects vs. Antirock Off-Road Sway Bar vs. SwayLOC Dual Rate Anti Swaybar System

That's to keep it out of the tires when turning and to prevent the links from flipping the arm around at droop. If he's not having those issues, level is fine.

It's also important to make sure the link isn't pulled straight with the arm at full droop in order to prevent an inverted sway bar.
 
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This is the 1st Jeep I have owned so I don't have years of knowledge. My stock sway bar had rusted unknown brand disconnects on it. Ran it for weeks on the street disconnected before installing my Antirock. I don't think the body lean is bad. May be my lack of knowledge but driving semi trucks for 20+ years I am comfortable with the ride of the Jeep on the street.

On the angle of the arms, I don't have much up travel yet so left the links uncut. I can trim them if needed once I get my suspension sorted out.
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... I don't think the body lean is bad. May be my lack of knowledge but driving semi trucks for 20+ years I am comfortable with the ride of the Jeep on the street.

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Can you make a hard right turn at 25-30mph without fear of losing control? Because that is what some of us are talking about on rigs that also do things like this.

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The issue Jerry is referring to was limited to the first generation SwayLOC. The dates of the posts in the links to other jeep forums found in Post #1 suggest that the issue was remedied 14 years ago.*

The first photo in Post #1 allows a comparison of the Antirock torsion bar and the SwayLOC torsion bar. Both neck down to 0.75" in diameter, they are nearly the same length, and it is my understanding that they are made from the same chromoly steel.

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* The first generation SwayLOC employed a splined torsion bar with a single diameter rather than necked down as the torsion bar is now. In combination with the threaded hole for the retaining bolt this created a stress point that resulted in breakage. The second generation resolved this problem, but not without some well deserved ill feelings held by previous generation customers who could not obtain replacement parts, now "NLA" due to the design change, who were required to pay for an "upgrade kit."

This thread compares the current SwayLOC with the Antirock and stock antisway bar with disconnects. ORO company history deserves its own thread.
I have personal experience with the Gen 1 SwayLoc breakage. That’s the reason I currently run the Gen 2.
 
Can you make a hard right turn at 25mph+ without fear of losing control? Because that is what some is us are taking about on rigs that also do things like this.

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Yes. Now try making hard right turns at 25mph with rigs like this.
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I know what you are getting at. My Jeep aint yet to levels of off road capabilities as y'alls. I do know that at over 2 million accident free miles I am able to handle any rig I drive. Be it my Jeep or a semi truck.
 
Then you know full well that these are not valid comparisons, unless you are able to take that lowboy around a hard right without slowing down.

Maybe you have a clue the terrain, weather conditions ect. for me to avoid accidents for that many miles ? Each of those pics I was over 120,000lbs gross. Things happen fast to avoid the little 4 wheelers driving like a toddler running rampant in the house.

Taking a hard right turn in my Jeep at 25mph is not a problem to keep it under control.

You live in CO. I am intimately familiar with running empty from Denver to Rifle. Then loaded back east over the same hills to Denver and beyond. In winter conditions.

Jeeps aint hard to drive.
 
Yes. Now try making hard right turns at 25mph with rigs like this.
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I know what you are getting at. My Jeep aint yet to levels of off road capabilities as y'alls. I do know that at over 2 million accident free miles I am able to handle any rig I drive. Be it my Jeep or a semi truck.

Then you know full well that these are not valid comparisons, unless you are able to take that lowboy around a hard right without slowing down an hour after traversing a rock pile.
 
Maybe you have a clue the terrain, weather conditions ect. for me to avoid accidents for that many miles ? Each of those pics I was over 120,000lbs gross. Things happen fast to avoid the little 4 wheelers driving like a toddler running rampant in the house.

Taking a hard right turn in my Jeep at 25mph is not a problem to keep it under control.

You live in CO. I am intimately familiar with running empty from Denver to Rifle. Then loaded back east over the same hills to Denver and beyond. In winter conditions.

Jeeps aint hard to drive.
Yep, fitting right in.
 
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Maybe you have a clue the terrain, weather conditions ect. for me to avoid accidents for that many miles ? Each of those pics I was over 120,000lbs gross. Things happen fast to avoid the little 4 wheelers driving like a toddler running rampant in the house.

Taking a hard right turn in my Jeep at 25mph is not a problem to keep it under control.

You live in CO. I am intimately familiar with running empty from Denver to Rifle. Then loaded back east over the same hills to Denver and beyond. In winter conditions.

Jeeps aint hard to drive.

You don't know what you don't know. In any of your examples, can you hand the keys over to your wife, sister, girlfriend, grandmother and say go for a drive without any words of caution?
 
Jeeps are not hard to drive. Climbing rocks in a Jeep is a skill that I can learn.

Same as you can accuire the skill to handle your Jeep taking hard right turns at 25mph after traversing a rock pile.

Mine doesn't need a CDL and a log book, so stop using your TT as an example in this discussion.