too sway or not

[backcountrymafia]

reply whether or not you are running a sway or not and how its works for you,me, no bar. stiffen the front end, rear skid tightened up and limiter strap out all the way, high center of gravity is scary on the trail if you dont ride it like you stole it but off the trail its better than my zr and i had many hours and late nights into making that thing the perfect up boondocker

 

[Ridndirty]

I took out my swaybar last week, and its going back in tonight. Way too spooky on the trail for me. It's like riding an 80 horse canoe down the trail, your never really sure which way it's going to go when you pull the trigger.

 

[phzmtnlite]

the sway bar is on for a reason and that is for stability. When riding trail you will need that sway bar. Now, if mainly riding off trail, the removal of the sway bar will allow the sled to roll from side to side easier allowing the rider to carve better in powder. I ride mainly off trail and have the bar off and I can carve like a butcher but you need powder. I loosened the limiter strap to transfer weight to the rear for better track pressure and so when i see stumps and logs, lean back hammer the gas to float the front over. The sled is actually dangerous riding trail with sway bar off, I leave mine off all the time but I ride the trail to get where I am going so I ride easy.

 

[Steelhead]

The phazer is tippy on trail with or without the sway bar. I took mine off a couple weeks ago. The sled carves way better in the pow and sidehills better. It can be scary on hard packed roads, but I didnt buy this sled to ride roads.

 

[CJW]

Schmidt bros sway bar made a HUGE difference on the wifes 07 Mtn lite. I would strongly recommend it to anyone

 

[backcountrymafia]

how is the schmidt brothers kit off trail

 

[CJW]

She has been really happy with it all the way around. We ride alot off the off trail stuff around Grand Marais Mi. It just tightened up the sled all the way around. I had a blast with it on one of the small lakes around Seney with 3ft of untouched powder.

 

[phzmtnlite]

the schmidt bro is for trail, probably tightens up front even more than stock. i am looking for something softer than stock but not as loose as off. I have the bar off and springs tightened up and barly trailable

 

[backcountrymafia]

fox floats are the next step my friend, im saving as we speak i think it will take care of the lack of whatever the front lacks with this thing

 

[ThatOneGuy]

I do mostly trail riding with mine, (sway bar on) havn't rode with it off so I don't know what it's like without. I feel it is forgiving enough when you land off to one side, it hasn't thrown me off, but absorbed the impack pretty good I think.

 

[aksteepndeep]

I have the bar removed with fox floats and it is a little tippier than stock. This really shows off the softer rear shocks. I am looking at adding the timbersleds rear skid kit to fit it

 

[Ruckus]

Has anyone thought of making sway bar quick disconnects like a jeep? It should be fairly easy and as long as you are on a level surface it takes like 10 seconds to do. I was just looking at the phazer sway bar and its totally doable. You'd just have to strap the swaybar up to the a-arm with bungees or something so it can move freely. Here's a link to some homemade jeep sway bar discos. http://www.4x4xplor.com/homediscos.html

 

[Steelhead]

Good Idea. Do you think you could tie up the sway bar secure enough that it would not get ripped off by a tree or branch, and still not affect the suspension?

 

[murph]

You only need to disconnect one side of the swaybar to get the effect of totally removing it. The swaybar is left in on the girlfriends Phazer MTX but I removed one side of the swaybar from my Nytro MTX. Remove the bolt that attaches swaybar to A-arm through the linkage. Put the bolt in your toolkit, and put a zip-tie through the bolt hole to attach the linkage to the swaybar (so it doesn't hang down).

If you like it, keep it detached. If you you don't, re-attach. The whole process takes 5 minutes.

 

[bdm]

Has anyone thought of making sway bar quick disconnects like a jeep? It should be fairly easy and as long as you are on a level surface it takes like 10 seconds to do. I was just looking at the phazer sway bar and its totally doable. You'd just have to strap the swaybar up to the a-arm with bungees or something so it can move freely. Here's a link to some homemade jeep sway bar discos. http://www.4x4xplor.com/homediscos.html

I started doing this long ago - just a few bucks for lynch pins from the local hardware store - I pop them in when I occasionally do two-up. Otherwise I just keep the pins and one dog bone link in the tool kit.