Date:         Fri, 17 May 2002 11:36:46 -0700
Reply-To:     DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
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From:         DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Subject:      Re: anti-sway bar
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>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

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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