I'm so excited, the car handles so much better. What a difference. I'm still gonna get it aligned. I wrote up a little tech about it, check it out: http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?p=540654#post540654 Before (ignore the little U-bolt) After:
It's so funny, I was thinking in my head if anyone was gonna notice that. So the funny story is I forgot to tighten that one and took it for a test drive and I was a little disappointed because it didn't change as much as I thought. Then I came home and looked and I'm like duuuuhhhh!
I have a welder so I probobly would have tried to get rid of any long bolts and would weld things. The yellow is where I would weld to get rid of the red... but that's me. Sometimes I imagine my self bumping my head right on the darn bolt when the wife startles me lol.
oh the red stuff is marine grease. I was looking for synthetic marine grease but couldn't find it at my kragen.
thanks for the welding advice. I'm definitely doing it on the exhaust. I am still planning on having Bryant build me a new 8" so i'll hold off on welding the axle housing.
Doesn't the front sway bar suppose to be bigger that the rear sway bar? I always heard with a bigger sway bar in the rear you will have too much understeer.
If your using the same housing that's perfect tho. Weld it up before taking it apart so you can clean and paint it all at once.
from a balance stand point, with "normally" more weight on the front, you want a bigger front bar to offset the weight difference.....so yes
The sway bar is something that I will definitely be looking to in the future. These mavericks just don't handle all that well without some help. Rear springs will be first on the menu though.
I have used ADCO sway bars before that have the same mounts. The U bracket/mount where the sway bar bushings are riding on should be welded to your housing. If not, they will wear their way into the housing and cause a leak at the very least as they move as you drive. [/quote] I love the way my Mav handles with a larger front and adding the rear bar as you have done.
It's the opposite. A larger REAR bar will cause OVERSTEER. It causes the rear to come around in a hard turn. For high speed driving we remove the rear bar on leaf spring cars. If you have too much UNDERSTEER you add a rear bar. Understeer will cause you to steer more to make a turn. Oversteer is when the car is loose and the back end wants to come out with little steering inputs. NASCAR guys call understeer a "PUSH" and oversteer "LOOSE"
