I put a SwayLOC sway bar on my 05 LJ last week and tested it on a 5 day trip out in the Mojave. Approximately 500+ miles. 280mi on road pulling my teardrop and the rest on the trail. Man what a difference over my stock setup with JK clone disconnects.
The installation directions were pretty straight forward except for mounting the link assemblies. The instructions show the bolt as being integral to the assemblies but I received loose bolts with along with conical aluminum washers and nuts with a step on them. No instructions on how to orientate these parts. A quick call to Mr Blaine and he steered me in the right direction. I had the washers in the wrong direction. Thanks again for the help Mr Blane.
Getting the frame bushings to seat properly was the hardest part of the job and I ended up using threaded rod to pull them into place.
I removed the bumper to get better access and took the opportunity to de rust and paint it. Also I replaced the protective flex covering and rerouted the winch wires. PO had them going through an unprotected factory hole. The SwayLOC took about 4 hours including removing the bumper, winch and old sway bar. I did snap one of the bolts for the frame cover and fixing that added a bit of time. Prepping, priming and painting the bumper was done over 3 days.
Road manners were much improved over the stock system. The TJ felt very solid even in the strong cross winds I went through on the trip. Offroad manners were great and even on the off camber stuff I never lifted a wheel.
This thing wasn’t cheap but well worth the investment. Just flipping a lever to disconnect and reconnect the sway bar instead of needing to hammer the links on and off is nice.
The installation directions were pretty straight forward except for mounting the link assemblies. The instructions show the bolt as being integral to the assemblies but I received loose bolts with along with conical aluminum washers and nuts with a step on them. No instructions on how to orientate these parts. A quick call to Mr Blaine and he steered me in the right direction. I had the washers in the wrong direction. Thanks again for the help Mr Blane.
Getting the frame bushings to seat properly was the hardest part of the job and I ended up using threaded rod to pull them into place.
I removed the bumper to get better access and took the opportunity to de rust and paint it. Also I replaced the protective flex covering and rerouted the winch wires. PO had them going through an unprotected factory hole. The SwayLOC took about 4 hours including removing the bumper, winch and old sway bar. I did snap one of the bolts for the frame cover and fixing that added a bit of time. Prepping, priming and painting the bumper was done over 3 days.
Road manners were much improved over the stock system. The TJ felt very solid even in the strong cross winds I went through on the trip. Offroad manners were great and even on the off camber stuff I never lifted a wheel.
This thing wasn’t cheap but well worth the investment. Just flipping a lever to disconnect and reconnect the sway bar instead of needing to hammer the links on and off is nice.
