Does the TJ need it’s rear sway bar. Chucked the one on my Xterra but it is a leaf spring vehicle with a longer wheelbase. Would freeway speed handling be too compromised on a TJ?
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Philip
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Philip
Despite well-meaning but totally incorrect comments above, TJs do need their antiswaybars. At least if you want it to handle consistently well when you get into difficult driving situations or, especially, in an emergency maneuver. Far from me just being a safety zealot, this need is due to the inherent instability of a coil spring vs. the leaf springs in earlier models of TJs. CJs and Wrangler YJ's do fine without their antiswaybars but not the TJ's coil spring suspension.Does the TJ need it’s rear sway bar. Chucked the one on my Xterra but it is a leaf spring vehicle with a longer wheelbase. Would freeway speed handling be too compromised on a TJ?
Lots is not accurate, only the most basic of stripped down model SEs did.Lots of TJ's came from the factory without a rear anti sway bar.
It is accurate, a stripped down 4 cyl TJ is still a TJ. and they made lots.Lots is not accurate, only the most stripped down model SEs did.
Most cars back then still used leaf spring suspensions. Look at CJs and Wrangler J's which were all leaf springs suspensions until 1996 when the TJ came out. Apples and oranges when compared to the TJ's all coil spring suspension.Sway bars were no existent until the 1970s. Only a few high performance cars came with sway bars, often just the front, in the 1960s.
Do you need them? No.
Despite well-meaning but totally incorrect comments above, TJs do need their antiswaybars.
Lots is not accurate, only the most basic of stripped down model SEs did.
Only if you want to be short-sighted/myopic about the subject. If you personally don't want to use antiswaybars pagrey, that's your decision. Something tells me yours are still in place.So I guess the factory thinks it is fine.
End of discussion right?
On-road comfort is greatly increased, stability is not compromised.
Off-road comfort and capability is also significantly increased with no compromise.