So it's been a while since I updated this. I've been swamped getting things wrapped up. We have had a lot going on the last few months, so while I've been taking care of some final items for the truck, I haven't had the time to update this thread.
When I completed the SAS, I lost the swaybar. The truck actually drove and cornered very flat without it and we had no problems driving from Iowa back to Reno in a variety of terrains, but while it cornered with very little body roll, there was an oscillation that I wanted to address. Tim (the guy who designed the SAS kit) put a Currie torsion bar style swaybar on his truck. I looked at my options and ended up going with a similar system. It's a 1.25 solid bar with the arms. I wanted to utilize the factory Ford swaybar mounts on the axle and the swaybar links. Because the arms come straight and I needed them to "Z" bend 2" out from the frame width to the swaybar links and there is no way I could bend 1/2" thick steel at home, I had to take them to Wade Metal Works (the same guy who cut/bend the metal for the SAS). He did his math and figured out where the bends needed to occur and put them in his 100 ton press. Needless to say, it made short work of the arms.
They went from this:
To this (installed of course):
I used a universal Energy swaybar bracket/bushing kit that bolted up to my factory swaybar mounting holes. The good news is that it settled the sway/oscillations down perfectly. The only downside is that because of my factory offset rims and 35" tall tires, I rub the arms/bar where the bar passes through the arms. I ended up losing a little bit of turning radius as a result.
Jack
