Decided to do a little experiment removing the front sway bar, why ? wanted to test how the truck felt without it while doing offroad and also wanted to see how close the tire could tuck at full compression for the purposes of perhaps stuffing some 37's
CV angle full stuffed
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Plenty of room between the UCA and the RES even if i was jumping the truck
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No issues with coil binding either
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315's at full stuff no sway bar
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Impressions without the sway bar:
There is more sway as expected, the Kings do a good job around corners though so cornering didn't feel super sketchy, but rapid wheel corrections do suck as the truck sways like a boat left and right, i'm sure i could correct this for the most part if i had compression adjusters running them on the harder setting but i don't see myself driving without the sway bar long term anyways. Truck corners better with the sway bar as expected, and i like the feeling going fast with the bar to my surprise though i couldn't give the truck enough gas today to test. I was doing 30-35mph as our local spot was a little busy this afternoon so decided to play it safe.
Without the sway bar there is 1 5/8" gap between the tire and the fender, this is with the Strut resting on the bumpstop
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Like wise with sway bar on, 3 1/8" gap
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Had to put the factory sway bar bushings back, as the new links i got from oreally's sucked balls, the bushings at least, 2 passes on the local trail at some speed at the bushing literally disintegrated, this set have 70k miles now, can you tell ?
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I think i'll stay on 35's until i can run Fibwerwerx fenders