I've been wanting to put a rear sway bar on my truck since I bought it back in 2005. I haul a pickup camper and have SRW just as shown in the picture in my signature.

My question is... What year truck sway bar will fit my 2001? I spotted a 2004 dually sway bar at a wrecking yard and wondered if it would fit. The price quoted was very reasonable... I just would like to narrow down what will and won't fit.

Thanks in advance.

 

I would expect just about any Super Duty SRW sway bar would fit. If your budget allows, take a look at the Hellwig model. It is much more effective than an OEM bar.

 

you need to check them before you buy used, my '99 F250 2wd camper special (now my service truck) has a rear sway bar about as big as a yugo would have

 

I have considered Hellwig but the price quoted for the OEM sway bar is 1/5th the price of the Hellwig. Even if I replace the bushings with Energy Suspension aftermarket bushings ill still come out way ahead.

I was hoping to get a reference to a Ford part number that verified that across several years that the rear sway bar would or wouldn't fit.

I checked Helwig's part and it appears the same model works for '99 to at least '06... That's where I stopped checking.

 

I think you will need one off a SWR truck. Differert axle in the DRW and the brackets on my dually are welded on instead of being clamped.

 

Here is one way to get one:

Here is what I did:

 

Turfzilla, that's awesome. Exactly what I was hoping for.

I couldn't agree more with your comment. Ford should have done this to all these trucks.

 

I did the same thing at my pick-and-pull. Got mine for $50 I think....whole thing.

 

I wanted to update this thread now that I finally got a used rear sway bar assembly.

I paid $40 for the entire assembly at a pick-n-pull yard. It took about an hour to remove it from the wrecked truck. After cleaning it up with brake clean and lacquer thinner it didn't even have any rust to deal with.

The installation took about 2 hours, maybe a little more. The top of the end link on the drivers side was a bugger. There is about 1' between the fuel tank and the frame. I couldn't get my "sausage fingers" in there while holding the washer or bolt. I had my son help with that part. The rest of the install went fine.

Like was said before I don't know or understand why Ford didn't put these things on all of their trucks. Just driving around without a load I can feel a difference in how the truck handles. It really tightened up the back end. I can't wait until I put the pickup camper on and haul it around to really see how it feels.

I wanted to give a special thanks to Springer Pop for taking time to take some photos of which hole in the frame the end links bolt to. Thanks Pop! And thanks for the replies and photos from everyone at FTE.

 

Can you tell the difference?

 

"Just driving around without a load I can feel a difference in how the truck handles. It really tightened up the back end."


He said it did.

 

The first day that I drove the truck without a load I could tell a difference in how the rear of the truck handled.

Yesterday I put about 100 miles of driving in with the Pickup Camper on the truck. Driving the interstate, in heavy rain, quite a bit of wind (20-40 mph) and cruising at speed it handled like a dream. I'm so glad that I installed the rear sway bar.

Below are two pictures that SpringerPop took of the end links and where they attach to the frame. In my haste in removing them from the wrecked truck I didn't take note of which bolt hole they went in.

Driver's side.




Passenger's side.