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 snapped sway bar quick disconnect bolt wheeling in Crozet
#796100
03/11/07 07:20 PM
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Joined: Sep 2002
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I wheeled in Crozet, Virginia yesterday. It's really a different experience to wheel a course that is intentionally set up to create obstacles. I felt a little out of my league, but I finished without too much carnage. I didn't disconnect my front sway bar because the cheap replacement CV axle binds up on full droop. Big mistake - the bolt sheared off the sway bar quick disconnect (should be easy to fix). It was a non-stop, white knuckle experience all the way, and I thought I had managed to get through without body damage. Then, the last 50 feet of the course (the only flat 50 feet) I went through a puddle and a hidden branch in the water leaped out of the water and slapped my rear panel denting it. It's like the course said, "No one leaves without SOME damage." Pete ![[Linked Image]](http://pics.montypics.com/phohmann/2007-03-11/1173636424_crozet__low_rez_.jpg)
'01 Rodeo Sport, 5 Speed Softie, Indy 4X rocker bars, OME 912's, Rancho 9000X's, Superwinch hubs, custom tube bumper with Warn 9000i , Flowmaster 50, TeraLow t-case gears, ARB front & rear lockers, TrXus MT's, Sway bar disconnects
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Re: snapped sway bar quick disconnect bolt wheeling in Crozet
[Re: TrailMystic]
#796101
03/12/07 01:37 AM
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Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 5
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If your sway bar quick disconnects are from Rock Stomper, I would not bother to try to fix them. I broke mine three times just driving, and had them professionally rewelded together twice. After the third break, I just scrapped the entire sway bar. Drives just fine now.
I am not saying that Rock Stomper makes cheap stuff, I think that the angles for the links are just too much.
Dreaming of an SAS
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Re: snapped sway bar quick disconnect bolt wheeling in Crozet
[Re: Veronica99]
#796102
03/12/07 03:25 AM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 1,656
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NOPE...they are Independent4x and fully supported <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> just bring it by pete and swap them out for new...............you are the 1st to break....conradulations <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> crozet is a good prooving ground..........good job wheeling there w/ out a break of some kind.
'93 RS 3.2L - DD/trail build '97 7.3L Powerstroke - tow rig '71 FJ40 - V-8, nv4500, atlas, D60, 14B - current build Owner: http://www.INDEPENDENT4x.comm-f 9am-6pm EST. 804-550-0480
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Re: snapped sway bar quick disconnect bolt wheeling in Crozet
[Re: TrailMystic]
#796103
03/13/07 08:04 PM
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Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 1,067
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Matt already made me a replacement (no cost). Carnage happens. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> The product is very high quality and I recommend it highly.
Pete
'01 Rodeo Sport, 5 Speed Softie, Indy 4X rocker bars, OME 912's, Rancho 9000X's, Superwinch hubs, custom tube bumper with Warn 9000i , Flowmaster 50, TeraLow t-case gears, ARB front & rear lockers, TrXus MT's, Sway bar disconnects
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Re: snapped sway bar quick disconnect bolt wheeling in Crozet
[Re: TrailMystic]
#796104
03/14/07 01:41 AM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 2,074
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I agree about the qualkity of the product. I added a set on rear axle. Its now super flexy <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />.
Mark-95Trooper,fr LockRight,rr LSD,5spd,TeraLow,Indy tierods&QD sways,CO2, RS9000Xs,OME912&2.5"spacers,1"BL,ARB w/Warn M8000,OBT rear bumper&sliders. Pics indy4x
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Re: snapped sway bar quick disconnect bolt wheeling in Crozet
[Re: Wareagle]
#796105
03/15/07 05:06 AM
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Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 1,214
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You just broke a bolt?? HEck I snapped the entire Sway bar last fall on a piddly little dirt road on the way to a trail <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Jeff Mason
Whatever makes you upset in someone else...also exists in you
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