The drive down to the lake from the road is a good mile, it is very bumpy to say the least with big pot holes and ridges, my problem is with the anti roll / sway bar , my question is if I remove it will it make much of a difference to the handling of my bus on the road Bazza
I’m guessing roll and sway may be more pronounced. No idea why I feel that way. Must be the spirit world talking to me.
Is yours ‘historic’ ? Cos I’m guessing having missing suspension components is gonna be an MOT fail. my understanding is they are there to stop body roll when cornering at speed. Anyone who tries to corner a forty year old vehicle that’s as aerodynamic as a House brick and has all the downforce of a helium balloon at speed probably deserves to come to a sticky end. The other option is take less beer with you. Or get air suspension. With the added bonus of being able to do Low Rider bounces to 90s hip hop tracks in Aldi’s car park. Proper street.
It will change your ride on a bumpy road. No more twisting lurches. I like my fully independent suspension. Big hole ? Wheel drops into it, body stays more upright. But you will roll more on cornering as you have reduced the spring rate for differential movement of the wheels. It means the bus has to drop more on the outside for the same cornering speed. So you will be running on the bump stops. Means that you may find more understeer too as it skips on bumps if its sitting on the bump stop as you corner. Which is why I have coilovers as the bump stops were the wheel arches on my lowered bus. Stiffens up the spring rate so it rolls less, still has indpendent travel of all four corners. Price you pay though is a ride which is maybe twice as hard. Its not the airy wallow of a stock bus.
I believe you can flip the sway bar but I can't get my head around how its done I think Simon @1973daisey did it
Fit it on top of the arms like I did gains clearance as the arms are same top and bottom all fits Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Even if it makes little or no difference to the handling removing suspension components that were fitted as standard is a good reason for an insurance claim being refused if you roll off the road and hit something or somebody.
What I did was take it to a farm with a 2,000 ton press. We put an extra bend in it by trial and error a bit at a time. Worked really well. You'll maybe find it difficult to fit upside down with the van jacked up, it's going to clash with the beam until it's back on it's feet. @1973daisey ??
It wallows about like a fat girl eating chips on a lilo of Skegness. I bust mine once and it handled proper pants.
@1973daisey Simon how did you fit the clamp? I couldn’t get mine to fit, used a Tclamp instead which is easy to fit and seems to work fine (been like that for 2 yrs)
