Novak Conversions Jeep Wrangler TJ engine mounts

Steinjager Products

Steinjager Adam here and it's interesting to see how jeepers respond. Although this is a very old post...it does pop up first when you search Steinjager TJ Rear Sway Bar Forum Review. This product that manufactured in Illinois has been a best seller for years and if you investigate... "is DOM tubing stronger than bar" you will find the answer is yes. Steinjager always recommends to disconnect end links while off roading to avoid cracking or breaking the rear sway bar. Steinjager offers 2", 4", 6" TJ Rear Sway Bar Kits with 2 options of End Link Styles.

It's odd to me that you would drag this up from the heap pile... I think I would have left it dead.

As someone in the Steel industry, before I drug this back up, I would still reach out to a metallurgist to review the tensile strength claims of your specific hollow tube versus another's solid stock. Especially before making broad claims without verified certs of both, and not in general but specifically both products involved. The chemistry of steel can be vastly different. That picture of the torn RSB speaks volumes.

The question remaining for me is concerning the recommendation to disconnect the RSB to avoid damage to it? Other than for certain coil over suspensions that say they aren't necessary, I would think having both front and rear disconnected, especially on off-camber situations would make the jeep very unstable and prone to flop on it's own suspension one way or the other, potentially flopping all the way over?

...but hey... I'm a relative newbie to the Jeep off road world, maybe I just haven't been a part of those discussions?
 
The question remaining for me is concerning the recommendation to disconnect the RSB to avoid damage to it? Other than for certain coil over suspensions that say they aren't necessary, I would think having both front and rear disconnected, especially on off-camber situations would make the jeep very unstable and prone to flop on it's own suspension one way or the other, potentially flopping all the way over?

...but hey... I'm a relative newbie to the Jeep off road world, maybe I just haven't been a part of those discussions?
I don't know who says they aren't necessary or beneficial with the caveat that we are talking about offroad specific swaybars. We tend to always build a rig around offroad swaybars since experience has taught us that there is a big benefit when it comes to traction if you run them.

Sadly, I was so bothered by the spurious claim about tube versus solid, I missed the disconnecting part which means it is a street bar and probably best left on the shelf.
 
I don't know who says they aren't necessary or beneficial with the caveat that we are talking about offroad specific swaybars. We tend to always build a rig around offroad swaybars since experience has taught us that there is a big benefit when it comes to traction if you run them.

Sadly, I was so bothered by the spurious claim about tube versus solid, I missed the disconnecting part which means it is a street bar and probably best left on the shelf.

I did by a bar that holds the half doors on the garage wall during the warmer months,and I bought the wife a sturup to help her in the jeep,both work great,but they seem more like a jeep accessories company than a jeep off-road products company.
 
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Any one remember the Warn hub fuse....
Sadly, yes I do. They failed way too easily, they were not cheap, and there was no guarantee that they would not cause collateral damage. We had a guy on Sledge replace 3 of them before he finished the trail. He did not come back out with them in use again. Neat idea, terrible in use.
 
Sadly, yes I do. They failed way too easily, they were not cheap, and there was no guarantee that they would not cause collateral damage. We had a guy on Sledge replace 3 of them before he finished the trail. He did not come back out with them in use again. Neat idea, terrible in use.

Sounds like our experience here. Buddy broke 2 within an hour running Etna Mountain in Chattanooga. None of the rest of us were running them, and no one broke an axle or a Ujoint.
 
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