Im looking into better sway bars for my 01 Xped mainly for better road handling, i do very little off-road. Hellwigs website dosen't give an app chart for an 01 Xped. Does anyone know of a website, that would have updated info on this. The shop that does some of my work is pointing me to an ADDCO sway bar..ive always heard of hellwig, but never addco. Any help would be great

Thanks

 

www.addco.net

they've been around forever, I first bought one of their sway-bars back in 1970. I have a set on my 96 F-150. Simple installation, great handling improvement. FWIW I've read about some install problems with Hellwig

 

StrangeRanger: I am thinking about putting a rear Helwig swaybar on my '95 F150. I notice you did a set, but I thought the OEM front bar would suffice. What do you think? Did you first get the rear only and then find the performance better with a matched set? I understand that if the front and rear are not compatible, it can result in handling problems.

Thanks, Paul

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If you have the stock (7/8"?) front bar, go ahead and do the rear, it should be OK. If not you can add the front later. The rear bar with no front is twitchy as hell and no fun to drive. I installed my rear first and thr truck was a nightmare until I got the front.

 

Yeah. I have a front bar. I just called Hellwig and they said no problem adding their rear with the stock front. Their tables show 1" rear and 1&1/8 front, though the stockfront may be smaller. Thanks.

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Well I was extremely mistaken. My '95 F150 does not have a front anti-sway bar. Yet, this discussion was not in vain, because the E350 motorhome does have a front bar (I am sure as I measured it last night--1"). Certainly the motorhome is the most needful candidate for the rear bar (actually a safety issue here). The pickup, for the kind of driving I do, handles pretty nicely (perhaps partly due to the Bilsteins I recently put on the front). I suspect the bars would make it really sweet, but I'm not willing to spend the extra money for two bars.

Thanks again. Paul

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Wow, the Helwig rear sway bar on the motorhome performed beautifully through a lot of heavey winds on a 1300 mile trip last week. Ran into trouble in Ohio though where I was getting side slammed by 50 mph gusts. I had to drive 45 mph and even then the front end was diving to the shoulder. My theory: rear bar tightened up the rear so good that the factory front bar is now the weak link. I plan to replace with a Hellwig which is beefier and will have new bushings to replace the existing cracked bushings. Should help a lot, though I expect to still be roughed up a bit with such severe winds. At least this way it will be a balanced set. Also I have new Bilstein shocks on all four.

 

Tall Paul --- I have some pix posted for the Hellwig bars...
you can find them at www.beedzncomputers.com - click on the Harrison link (the name of my F-100) and go the "in the box" link under front suspension.

Good luck...

 

>Tall Paul --- I have some pix posted for the Hellwig bars...
>you can find them at www.beedzncomputers.com - click on the
>Harrison link (the name of my F-100) and go the "in the box"
>link under front suspension.

Interesting. The front pivots appear to clamp to the frame, whereas I have a cross member on my '95 F150 that they bolt directly to. I still had to have u-clamps on the I-beams though. I had trouble with frame clearance as the arms were directly under the frame, but yours appear to be just outside.

In the rear it appears you have the frame clamps. My motorhome set came with brackets that bolt to the frame, but there were no holes in the frame so they sent me the clamps. I fiddled with the clamps and then decided to drill holes in the frame. It is securely mounted now.

For the motorhome front, Hellwig said I must use clamps on the Ibeams even though I have existing links off the spring perches. I decided to go with a different brand bar since it would mount to the existing links and would be outside the frame, whereas I would have the same clearance trouble on the motorhome as I did with the pickup if I went Hellwig. I just can't remember the name of the company (it is in some post on this site though). It is finshed in gold and so shows up nicely from the front. Stock was a 1" bar, Hellwig was a 1.25, but the one I got is a 1.375" and so far it works great! This thing drives (about 500 miles so far including some fairly heavy cross winds) like a dream now.:-)

 

IPD is the brand I put on the motorhome. They started by making sway bars for Volvos and then branched out to other vehicles.