>When the body leans over to one side, the bar is lifted up. This >pulls down the high side and the weight is more evenly distributed >on all four wheels. This may be your *perception*, but the fact is that a (anti-) sway bar works to keep the wheels at the same level. If your left one is down the bank, the sway bar is pulling down (trying to) on the right one, which pushes *up* on the right side of the vehicle. The sway bar's job is to keep the vehicle level with the surface. If that is a sloped surface, the vehicle will lean with that surface more so than without the bar. We are most familiar with the good job a sway bar does at reducing lean on a flat road in corners because of this very trait. You will still have full wheel travel, it's just that they will not operate *independently* as much as they used to, which is more important off-road than on. Dave -- Dave Carpenter Whatever you wish for me, May you have twice as much. "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C. Clarke |
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