It's good to hear all your responses. You're all right & I agree with you all.

One note to my previous post and to Bear River is that in both my mentioned accidents the vehicles DID roll, after skidding, etc.:

The 1st I was a 17 year old passenger in a 1973 Pontiac LeMans 2 door with jacked up rear end via coil over shocks 70 MPH on a highway. My dumb 16 year old friend was 'racing' some guys in a Firebird & got off the pavement with 2 wheels. I got thrown out thru the back window. My wrist & back got broken & I spent 2 weeks in the hospital. If I'd had a seatbelt on I prob wouldn't have gotten hurt. After that I began wearing them even before the law required it.

The 2nd I was about 35 years old driving my 1985 Cherokee just after having added too heavy a rating helper leaf springs to the stock springs. (I carried lotsa tools constantly then too.) I was very familiar with my Jeep's handling which was like a big, slightly top heavy sports car. I'd driven it for years & even at 90+MPH following someone thru the mountains on Interstate Highway 40, so I well knew it's handling at the limits.

I was on a familiar country road close to home but in a hurry & driving a lil too fast (70 MPH) & had been drinking hours earlier in the day (marrige problems!). The Jeep's response that day was TOTALLY unlike it's normal handling, and I couldn't gather it back once it broke loose. That was the end of one of my favorite vehicles of all time. : (

 

well I got the swaybar today and will put it on thursday,I also put new firestone tires and four monroe sensatrack shocks new plugs and wires.boy the shocks were original motorcraft(ten years old) boy those rear shock bolts are a pain in the ****!also had the original plugs that had about a .090 gap atleast!believe it or not it ran fine.I`ll post back when I get it all on.

 

Well i must say the swaybar makes a big difference in th handling of the van,the only thing was it was a pain to install on the control arms and had to move the damper control on the rear to drill thru the control arms,I guess the hellwig swaybar must clamp on somehow?anyway it makes a big difference in the van.Might have to put new bushings in the front bar though as the look all cracked up anyone know where to get the neopream bushings for the front bar at?

 

I'm glad you found the sway bar helpful in handeling the Aero.
Beaned

 

Somewhere on this forum, someone posted the pictures of the rear sway bar that I installed onto my van. It had clamp-on mountings at both the control arms and the rear axle tube, so no drilling was necessary. I can't remember the brand, but I'm guessing from Dobz's description that I must have gotten a Helwig.

 

I found it odd that this swaybar did not connect to the axel at all just to the control arm?Does this sound right,also the directions that came with the bar sucked!

 

Dobz,

There are different ways to implement anti-roll bars, but the idea is to prevent the axle (or axles in the case of independent suspensions) from moving unevenly relative to the chassis, kind of the opposite of independent suspensions.

In your case, I'm guessing that the bar attaches rigidly to each control arm, probably with at least two bolts. Mine has clamps on the control arms and the bar attaches through end links with urethane bushings, and it's also clamped to the axle housing. In both cases, in order for the control arms to move independently, they would have to twist or bend the bar.