Decided on installing a Currie Antirock Sway Bar in preparation for Moab EJS this year. My original plan was to find a used Rubicon swaybar and go with an EVO No Limits set-up. Seems like those things are harder to find than I thought and when I did find one for a reasonable price it had already been swooped up. After talking to a few people out at King of the Hammers and getting annoyed with disconnecting and re-connecting my sway bar I felt like it would be a good idea to get the Antirock prior to EJS. My Rock Krawler quick disconnects worked fine and as intended but I'd heard good things about the Antirock's and figured it'd be nice not having to re-connect everyday out at Moab and anytime for that matter.
I haven't noticed much if any increased body roll from what I already had. The ride is great and so far I'm really liking them. Installation should have been pretty straight forward and taken an hour or so. I seemed to run into every issue I could with each step.
I had it in my head for some reason that I wouldn't have to take off my EVO quarter pounder to do the install. After fumbling around for 45 minutes trying to make it work with the bumper in place I finally came to my senses and unbolted and slid it back enough to get the sway bar through the bushing. That leads to my next delay, getting the damn sway bar through the bushings. Holy hell that was a tight fit! Instructions say you might have to "tap" it through. I beat the living hell out of it to get it through those bushings!! Next, I had problem getting the bolt to thread into the sway bar. Ended up having to run to the hardware store to get a tap and die set (my first time doing that, which was cool) so that I could get the bolt started. Sway bar links were easy enough to get on, no problems there. Ok, so now I'm on the home stretch getting my EVO QP bolted back on. Well, wouldn't you know the last bolt decided to be a pain in the ass to get started and bolted down. Now i'm into this 1 hour install 3 and a half hours. Lucky for me I expect every install to have some sort of hiccup and take longer than expect since this Jeep is really my first do-it-yourself vehicle. Each install is definitely a learning process and anytime I get an excuse to add to my tool collection I can't complain.
Here you can see why the EVO bumper needed to come off. Not enough space to get the sway bar in:
Old sway bar with Rock Krawler links:
Sway bar removed:
Few of the finished product:
I'm going to try to get it flexed later this week and see how that goes and if the links need any adjusting.
