About half of my annual miles are towing either a travel trailer or my side by side. I don't think I'm ready to try to swerve to avoid a moose without a front sway bar towing. But I'd love to have a quick disconnect mechanism for the days when I'm on the offroad trails where the sway bar disconnect does so much good to improve the ride quality. Yesterday was one of those days where I spend a few hours exploring some pretty chewed up fire roads. If I could buy a SDM kit for $800 - It would be worth it for me to add. Probably more useful for me in real world than $800 more expensive coilovers.
It's not super hard to put on and off - but you've got to pull the skid plates and that can be a pain. I suppose I could just figure out a quick end link disconnect of some sort. But I'd rather have an electric disconnect.
My thought on a DIY version would be to pic up a junk yard active hydraulic unit from BMW or Land Rover or similar - they're all basically the same thing, a hydraulic rotating mechanism with two pressure ports for each direction. I'd just verify that it's a 1:1 fluid volume ratio for either direction and then make up some hoses and an electric solenoid valve to either open fluid flow for "disconnected" and default to closed for "connected". I think it could be done for less than $500 in total parts. I just don't have any access to machine shop, welding, etc right now, so I can only daydream. Only downside to this way of doing it is that it wouldn't naturally self return to preset position. It would just lock in whatever position you close the valve in. That might be a problem.
