hi, i tried search bar to no avail. anyone running quick disconnect sway bar links? i'm honestly mostly mall crawling. driver side link broke and tore up the outer cv axle.
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How do you choose which swaybar to eliminate front or rear?
I bought my GX with suspension done already, Dobinson IMS 3" with medium duty springs all around and both swaybars removed, It doesn't drive terrible, a bit of roll as expected. The only roads that felt the roll was on long sweep mountain road going 70mph or so, still wasn't that bad.
I may want to add a swaybar back, but not sure if I should do front or rear. Is there a recommended aftermarket swaybar for GX with lift?
At no point is it really recommended to run just a front swaybar with no rear swaybar. The rig would handle like an understeering mess, and offroad it would become ridiculously unstable on any climbs or off-camber situation.
Run the stock rear, and either ditch the front or run front disconnects and you'll be good to go.
Like I mentioned, mine currently has no sway bars at all, it handles pretty fine to be honest. And my reference point is having owned for many years a spacer lifted 4th gen 4Runner with XREAS (which did handle better) and our 2017 GX460 that's completely stock.
However I may add a swaybar back and I guess rear bar first seems to be the one you're suggesting to add.
I have a BMW M3 with no-rear bar and it handles awesome, but it's not lifted 3" lol, it's lowered a bit and has much higher spring rates which compensate the need for sway bar in the rear.
I don’t have the link handy, but there are a couple of YouTube videos of quick disconnects for the front on fjc and 4Runner.
The 4R web site has a lot of posts of someone who makes and sells them on that site.
I contemplated making my own for the front, but never got around to it.
it’s recommended that you only disconnect the front or the rear, but not both. Pick your poison!
i personally was going for an inexpensive solution for better articulation which was long/extended travel shocks/coils in the rear and quick sway bar disconnects for the front.
never got around to trying the front disconnects and having sway bars connected in both end really limits articulation.
I got an e-mail from MikeS and he doesn't have quick disconnect sway bar end links for the GX470. E-mail on 10/23/2021.I was just looking for these today for the front end, and I found the guy making them here.
Looks like $220 for the front disconnects, and he has front and rear discos and end links for 3rd, 4th,and 5th gen 4Runners, FJs, and GXs.