2001 4Runner build/fix log
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Hit the actuator? I have not seen that so far. I am still running it without issue to my knowledge.
Mauzer
Pitter Patter. Lets Get at Er
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Seems it was happening with retrofits and stock after a lift was installed
Seems it was happening with retrofits and stock after a lift was installed
Silverback
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Flex that fucker out!!
I have installed the longer rear sway bar links from the frame to the link. I will check it out tomorrow when I am changing the oil tomorrow; but I did not notice any marks on the housing when I rebuilt the actuator last month.
Silverback
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Just bring tools to remove it should it be an issue. 
Wasn't an issue at Hidden Falls but I will keep an eye on it this trip. I doubt we will do anything this trip worse than I do/ have done to it already.
Front sway bar is going back on. The RTT is too much without it
Silverback
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I liked watching take those twisty roads in Arkansas cornering on the door handles.
I liked watching take those twisty roads in Arkansas cornering on the door handles.
You would have really loved watching me in the mountains on the way to Broken Bow. I knew I was going into an oh-shit moment when I saw @tex start to roll some. I think I figured out a good way to make the stock sway bar detachable at the ends for trails and easily reattach the ends for roads.
Mauzer
Pitter Patter. Lets Get at Er
Make sure you can remove the body of the link or have it be attachable to the bar...I had some "pull the pin" QD's that left the link hanging and they quickly got FUBAR
Yeah; thinking of capturing the cross bar of the sway bar and having the ends completely removable so they do not tear anything up.
Mauzer
Pitter Patter. Lets Get at Er
Nice, let me know when I can pick up my new "Shooter Fab" links
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
I liked watching take those twisty roads in Arkansas cornering on the door handles.
You Pfucker I was worried my installation of new brake lines, wheel cylinders, and front calipers... we're going to fail, definitely going to have rotors turned and put green pads back on, we went down that mountain way too fast
You probably don't have much brake pads left on that trailer driver side tire, it locked up quite a bit throughout the trip
So this is what I am thinking for detachable sway bar ends: replace a section of the sway bar on each end with interlocking tube clamps, then fabbing up a restraint mount to go above the sway bar to keep the end out of the way/ from damaging anything. (Where the second piece of painters tape is)
Cut/ weld in the tube clamp where the blue painters tape is.
Interlocking Tube Clamp
Cut/ weld in the tube clamp where the blue painters tape is.
Interlocking Tube Clamp
Silverback
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Have you looked at the detachable sway bar links Jeeps use? Ex BIL had them and they were very simple. Pull a pin, pull sway bar link and connector up and connect to a secondary mounting point. Done.
I have thought about some sort of switchable link; but have not put much thought to it lately. I will try to explore that route again before cutting the sway bar.
Silverback
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Looking at the JKS design there might be a problem. Your steering rack end links are in the way to swing the sway bar links out of the way. Damn.
Wrangler TJ Sway Bar Disconnect | Sway Bar Disconnect
Wrangler TJ Sway Bar Disconnect | Sway Bar Disconnect
Most of the problems I saw with them before were end connection issues or that they did not lend to a way of securing the sway bar out of the way.
Silverback
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It has a pin you install up top and lock the end link into it. Worked awesome. But in your case I don't think you can swing the end link around your steering linkage.