More articulation better?....yes it is, however it's pretty unstable off camber. Well see how it goes being slower off road to combat the roughness of having sway bars..
I drove for about 6mo with both sway bars completely removed & what I found is that I'd rather be able to take overpasses and canyons at normal speeds then have to slow down due to the sway...
This only applies if you don’t add a ton of weight to your rig...
If you want to get rid of the downsides of a torsion bar anti-swaybar interacting with your suspension, the choice is dual rate coils paired with a shock maximally designed to operate in that system.
Dual rate coils increase spring rate out to the outer side in cornering and reduce it on the inside, very much like a torsion bar, but they don’t interact negatively by creating oversteer and the snap back you get from a torsion bar.
You cannot have so much weight that you have overwhelmed the transitional section of a dual rate coil, but if you design around minimizing extra weight it is better to design cornering performance into the suspension rather than a torsion bar, and there are a lot of reasons for this.
“I removed my swaybars” not a neutral statement. And is also not automatically positive or negative because you shouldn’t be doing it as an isolated variable.
People spend a bank adding weight to their 80s, robbing clearance, on and offroad performance, and suspension dynamics in the process.
It is a “good” idea to “upgrade” your swaybars if you choose this design path. Obviously a lot of people choose an 80 in order to haul ass with a lot of stuff - not bagging on that, just noting that there options if you have a different requirement.
The factory rear is a lot more problematic than people think, maybe more so than the front outside of the whole rip out the brakeline problem.
I thought you needed it to help the front flex until I pulled it because it had contact with my foam cell pro shocks, and then everything was better so I sold my rear rebuild kit and recycled that mf. Good riddance.
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