That's NOT How You Disconnect the Rear Sway bar

[Lunentucker]

All that money in overlanding gear and upgrades, and he shoots himself in the foot with this dumb move ?‍?

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[ChrisNLA]

Definitely not the right way to do it - but, on my old JK, even with the rear sway bar connected properly, my end links ended up hooking the brake line on one side while flexing and pulling the line down. Didn't fatally damage it though.

Edit: When it happened I had those same goofy brake line drop brackets that the Jeep in the video has. I took that junk off and installed longer rear brake lines. That kept them higher and safer where the swaybar couldn't hook them.

 

[fourfa]

LOL at disconnecting any swaybar for the White Rim, which is pretty darn mild. I probably wouldn't even bother pushing the button for my front disco there

 

[Escape.idiocracy]

Definitely not the right way to do it - but, on my old JK, even with the rear sway bar connected properly, my end links ended up hooking the brake line on one side while flexing and pulling the line down. Didn't fatally damage it though.

Edit: When it happened I had those same goofy brake line drop brackets that the Jeep in the video has. I took that junk off and installed longer rear brake lines. That kept them higher and safer where the swaybar couldn't hook them.

https://www.quadratec.com/p/teraflex/front-brake-line-anchor-kit-wrangler-jk-jl-1101255

Have you seen these? Crap can still happen I suppose, but ran these on our last few Jeeps and always seemed to help keep things out of harms way. Jk rears always seem to have a lot of extra crap to snag on- especially when you are set upto really droop…

 

[Volt0]

Saw that vid earlier, and I’m still trying to reconcile what happened. Why the rear? What was the expected outcome of disconnecting the mounting brackets while leaving everything else connected? Think that made some noise with the swaybar flopping around? Didn’t notice an issue with the brakes until both lines were destroyed? If Mike/Rory put the swaybar on top, does that mean that the customer lost the brackets/bolts? Did the customer at least have fun?

So many questions, not enough answers.

 

[Badunit]

Good thing someone had a flaring tool. Is that a common tool to pack on these kinds of off road adventures?

 

[fourfa]

That’s not some random guy, he’s the main off road recovery business around Moab. I imagine his truck is pretty stocked

 

[Jems007]

LOL at disconnecting any swaybar for the White Rim, which is pretty darn mild. I probably wouldn't even bother pushing the button for my front disco there

If I’m on dirt I usually disconnect. It just absorbs the bumps way better than being connected. Even on a trail like white rim. There’s many dips and washes. Nothing technical but it sure makes the ride nicer.

 

[ChrisNLA]

If I’m on dirt I usually disconnect. It just absorbs the bumps way better than being connected. Even on a trail like white rim. There’s many dips and washes. Nothing technical but it sure makes the ride nicer.

This. With my Apex AutoLynx is so easy to turn the knobs on both of them - might as well for a smoother ride.

 

[Rahkmalla]

LOL at disconnecting any swaybar for the White Rim, which is pretty darn mild. I probably wouldn't even bother pushing the button for my front disco there

One more here chiming in for disconnecting on all offroading adventures. I bought my autoLYNX for comfort more than articulation, and it absolutely delivers.

Why wouldn't I disconnect while airing down? Not like it takes more than a second.

 

[HooliganActual]

Good thing someone had a flaring tool. Is that a common tool to pack on these kinds of off road adventures?

As someone already said, he is the main offroad recovery guy in Moab. He had been told that the brake line was torn off by the Jeep's owner and so, brought the flaring tool and other parts out for that specific repair.

 

[Lunentucker]

One more here chiming in for disconnecting on all offroading adventures. I bought my autoLYNX for comfort more than articulation, and it absolutely delivers.

Why wouldn't I disconnect while airing down? Not like it takes more than a second.

This was the rear swaybar.

 

[HooliganActual]

This was the rear swaybar.

Yeah...that made absolutely no sense to disconnect, especially in the way he disconnected it using the brackets instead of the links. IMO, based on that oddity AND all the "bolt-on" cheesy stuff that he had on that Jeep, he was probably not terribly experienced or was given bad advice and didn't recognize it as such. I have never heard of anyone disconnecting the rear swaybar in a "normal" outing. Sure, buggies and such don't have them but that's a differnet use case. Quite the head-scratcher...

 

[tysongladiator]

This was the rear swaybar.

Was waiting for someone to catch that.

 

[Toro34]

once i saw the front grumper and windshield, it all made sense... jk jk

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