I am going to swap mine out for a Hellwig, the factory one is hollow.
Thanks for sharing. Looks like a nice unit! Being hollow alone doesn't make an anti-sway bar a 'weak' bar, it's just moving the torsional forces further from the center which increases efficiency, but also saving weight (~40%), mfgr costs and fuel economy. Kind of why I-beams are "I-shaped" instead of a solid bar like a heavy railroad rail. I marveled at my truck's hollow front anti-sway bar when I first noticed it. It represents a high level of manufacturing capability and expensive tooling to make a hollow one like they do, although the rears look like they're just pinched at the ends. The same results can be achieved with hollow or solid. My brother and I used to make heavy-duty anti-sway bars for cars when we were young. It's fun to play around with the different diameters and end-lengths. It always amazes me the weak and impotent anti-sway bars on cars of the 60's! You can take a wollowy boat of a car and with the right tuning turn it into a slot racer. Of course, with a truck or SUV, it's a compromise between good on-road handling and off-road wheel articulation. Heavy anti-sway bars are counter productive on back 40 trails or Moab excursions. But that's only a small portion of most people's driving -- if at all for some.
I need to add a stronger rear anti-sway for one of my top-heavy SUV's that's got a ton of oversteer. Did the new sway bar make your RAM more prone to understeer, or not that much?
Does Chrysler offer any kind of an Active-Handling product like GM's computer controlled magnetic fluid shocks?
