Alright well I have bad news. The crossmember that my sway bar hooks up to is bent and was making the dog bone lookin thing rub against my shock and punctured it. Anyways. No one has the crossmember and all the trucks I found have sway bars that connect to the frame. So I was wondering how expensive it is to do coil over shocks or if I can just remove the front sway bar for good......any advise. Im pissed that I have to replace the shocks. So if I can remove the sway bar without causing problems would be a god send.

 

The only problem I see removing the sway bar is body roll when turning. Is it possible to remove the cross member and straighten it out or be able to strengthen it out on the truck?

 

The rear sway bar should also help with roll. And I believe i could get it straightened out but I dont have a torch or anything and no way am I paying alot to get it done.

 

You might be able to use a mapp gas torch. It might take a bit to get red hot to bend it right. Those torches aren't that expensive and can be used for a number of other uses.

 

dont worry about the leak but the top of the picture shows where the crossmember is fubar.

 

What the hell did you hit or go over?

 

Unless you like driving your truck on it's roof DO NOT remove the front sway bar and leave the rear one installed! You could get away with a front only sway bar but not a rear only, so my suggestion would be to clearance that bent up cross member for the swaybar if you can't straighten it enough to clear the bar.

 

as ive said before it was like this when i bought it as i havent driven offroad or anything. now the only problem that im having is that the sway bar was right next to my shock absorber and punctured it. i dont have any way to replace or fix it but if i cant remove it or both the front and rear i will have to figure something else out

 

Saws all or take it to shop and have them heat it up and bend it back? I have seen a few of that style in the junkyard not too long ago. I had to remove mine to make room for the plow mount.

 

Did you have trouble after removing it? And did you remove the rear sway bar too? Ive checked the JY here and nothing. I dont feel like traveling 3 hours and have to still pull it myself

 

Take it off if you want to. 350 in my sig has no sway bars.

 

So remove the front and rear sway bars? It will be fine on a 150 right, just take slow turns?

 

It will likely ride different without in the turns than with.

But as Conanski said, do not drive with just a rear sway bar.

As the front rolls into the turn because it has no sway bar the rear tries to fight the roll. As it does this it is actually lifting the inside rear tire, overloading the outside rear tire and the back end spins around quicker than you can say "what the..".

 

I will remove both. I also checked my 86 f150 and it doesnt have sway bars and it rides great so im for sure removing them

 

I did not remove the rear sway bar. It pushes a bit in turns but I also installed front helper air bags because of the plow and that makes it handle a bit like it used to. I will compare how the frame mounted bar is on my '87 U150 and compare to my '89 F150. Maybe the frame mounted bar is an option