Yet another stupid question from a less than newbie

[MOAK]

In our old 80 series I removed the front sway bar for one trip and we rolled out and swayed quite a bit. I put it back on and left it on. Now I’m reading that a lot of people are removing the front sway bar from their F250/350s and experiencing a better ride and no loss in stability on pavement and a much more stable ride on washboard and otherwise technical terrain. What do you full size people think about this? Experience? Thanks in advance..

 

[MidOH]

Not a fair comparison.

I have PLOW springs on the front of my sway bar less F250. No plow on truck, so it corners flat as a racecar.

Generally we only disco one side, for a smoother ride.

A top heavy Toyota with springs that can't even handle a fat Connecticut wife, isn't comparable. I was floored by how soft and floaty my Brother in laws new 4runner is.

The Super Duty feels like a million bucks when loaded. But if all you're carrying is backpacks, go ahead and remove the sway bars. Or get the Carli version.

 

[MOAK]

Not a fair comparison.

I have PLOW springs on the front of my sway bar less F250. No plow on truck, so it corners flat as a racecar.

Generally we only disco one side, for a smoother ride.

A top heavy Toyota with springs that can't even handle a fat Connecticut wife, isn't comparable. I was floored by how soft and floaty my Brother in laws new 4runner is.

The Super Duty feels like a million bucks when loaded. But if all you're carrying is backpacks, go ahead and remove the sway bars. Or get the Carli version.

The 80 had “heavy” OME J springs and were stiff, with heavier springs in the rear. The 350 is a much better ride by far. In the 80 even with the heaviest springs available, a good side wind and we’d be rollin. So ya, basically a back pack- the 4WD pop up is 1700 dry, add us, all the liquids & gear maybe 2500 or so. Not much for an almost 4,000lb payload. Good info, I’m at the point now wondering why I waited so long to get back into an F series.

 

[MidOH]

Try it then. If the truck feels too sketchy, spend $1500 for a Carli bar.

I put my bar back on for longer trips with tons of highway. Disconnect one end for days or weekends of gravel roads.

 

[DavidinPhx]

I had them removed from my Tacoma, and while it leaned a bit, it rode well, and better offroad. No problem with heavy load for camping, but no camper, just a hard tonneau cover and rooftop carrier mounted on the tonneau. I had digressive Icon shocks without compression adjusters and Timbrens front and rear and that clearly helped. My aftermarket springs (Deavers) were great for offroad performance, but not HD enough for the camping load on the road. More HD springs would have helped.

On my Tundra with the camper, HD Deavers, spec’d better for load, and compression adjuster Icons I’m getting ready to remove the swaybars. Having the compression adjusters with the digressive shocks seems to be the key. On really curvey/leaney mountain roads, I can feel a difference with the shocks up all the way stiff (also offroad on head tossy slow crawling). I think that does more than the sway bars, but if I don’t like the lean with the front sway bars off, I’m going to either add a rear swaybar with a quick disconnect or airbags. May take awhile since it’s summer in Phoenix now . . . sigh . . .