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I'm wanting to lift my 84 F150 and got it checked out by a 4 wheel drive shop in town. They said that it would be a good idea to put on a sway bar in the front. I was wondering if I could pull a sway bar and all the associated mounting brackets off of a later model F-150 since there's not any bullnose in our area junkyards right now. It's a 4wd with a Dana 44TTB front axle and 8.8 in the rear. Thanks.
True but you can make quick dic-connects at the end links and wire the bar up out of the way.
Then again maybe this truck like 95% of the ones I see around here dont go off road?
But to answer your question I do believe it will swap to your truck.
Think Cory did this on one of his flares he built up.
Dave ----
Thanks for the replies, I plan to wheel it 2-3 times a month and tow a little with it as well. Just out of curiosity how bad would it handle on the road without one if I wanted to daily it during the winter?
How bad dose it handle now with out them?
Winter is not going to change how it handles.
Early 80's did not have sway bars on 4x2 or 4x4 unless you ordered it.
My 81 F100 4x2 dose not have bars and I can tell you there is no road racing it as it wants to roll over and play dead
Then again with a 300 six you dont even think of racing even in a straight line
Bars will make it feel more "plated" in turns where like I said the truck feels like it will roll over with out them.
Now manf. adds then to the front so they under steer saying it makes them safer? I dont see how when it wants to keep going straight in a corner.
If just a rear bar is added then it will over steer, rear comes around. You can steer into this to over come it most of the time.
Front going straight into something there is no way to recover if you cant steer or stop!
With a matched set front & rear it will corner flatter and of done right will steer with throttle in a turn.
Dave ----
i've got a 2018 super duty with 8" kit and removed my sway bars. it's slightly smoother ride since each wheel can move slightly with less interference or command from the other side. sway bars eliminate body roll. if you don't have em now you wont notice much. yes a sway bar helps eliminate body roll, but if your at the point your rolling on your side, seay bars wouldn't help anyhow
Someone else that has a 80's 250 with a SAS said the same thing about the sway bar not hooked up, smoother ride.
He also takes the truck "over land" so think he undoes the bar for that.
Dave ----
Thanks for the replies, I plan to wheel it 2-3 times a month and tow a little with it as well. Just out of curiosity how bad would it handle on the road without one if I wanted to daily it during the winter?
You will never notice the difference. You do not need to be taking corners at high speeds anyway if you are going to lift it. The lift hurts towing a little bit also, requiring a very tall drop hitch and killing the power of the engine with extra tall tires. The lift gives you the looks, but it comes with a price. Bed access is not very good either.
I swapped a bar and brackets from a '87 and up onto my '83.
They mounted no problem, except the spring perch I had to grind the pin or the radius arm down, don't remember which way I went.
Can't grind it all away as that pin provides orientation of the spring perch on the radius arm.
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