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Explorer Express Sway Bars
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Date of last review
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6
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1991
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Fri March 21, 2008
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100% of reviewers
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9.4
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supersize
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Description:
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Every Explorer driver will appreciate the effectiveness of larger sway bars. These husky sway bars reduce body roll giving the driver better control and safer handling all the time - especially in emergency situations. A very desirable handling improvement with little loss of ride quality. We compared many brands and these bars, manufactured to our specifications after extensive testing, work and fit the best. Bars are bent to exact factory configuration, not the one size fits all, universal styles offered elsewhere. Recommended for 2WD,4WD OR AWD. Fits 91-04.
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Keywords:
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Sway bar, antisway suspension, x-spec EE
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celly
Not a wannabe
Registered: July 2004
Posts: 3232
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Review Date: Thu January 19, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Makes your Ex handle MUCH better
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Cons:
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None
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I scored the EE swaybar based on many recommendations on this and other sites. It's amazing how it transforms the feel of your Ex. I only needed the rear on both my newest Explorers (traded in a '00 Sport on a '99 Eddie). I have this flyover I take every day going home from work. With the OEM bar, my Ex would skip a bit at higher speeds. Not a stable feel at all. No wonder the 1st and 2nd Gen Explorers got such bad press for rolling etc. Granted, I've driven a '05 Blazer recently and that is truly a scary handler!
Anyhow, the bar allows me to hit that flyover at much higher speeds and with much more confidence when cornering. Combined with my Bilstein shocks and poly bushings on the front bar, but Eddie handles awesome.
This is one of the first mods any Explorer owner should make, at least in the 1st or 2nd generations (can't comment on 3rd or 4th generations because they're so much different and I've never driven one).
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 1999 Eddie Bauer, 5.0L V8, AWD-> click here for my registry
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aldive
Elite Explorer
Registered: January 2001
Posts: 24721
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Review Date: Thu January 19, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Heavy duty construction, well made
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None
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Single best mod to improve the handeling of an Explorer.
Highly recommended
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Al Franklin
My truck
My Quest for 30
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kfkodiak
Elite Explorer
Registered: April 2003
Posts: 739
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Review Date: Fri January 20, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Really flattens out the handling, minimizing body roll.
New front endlinks and polyurethane bushings are a great complement to this setup. (sold separately)
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dreamr
Hiding..... somewhere
Registered: October 2003
Posts: 3704
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Review Date: Thu January 26, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 7
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Pros:
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Amazing improvement in body roll!!
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Cons:
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Extremely limits suspension travel
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I love this sway bar for the improvements in cornering and general city manuevering. However there is a small price to be paid.
In Seattle we have many a very steep hill, and often you find yourself coming down a very steep one only to turn left up another hill. I find that even a steep parking lot can cause me to lift a rear tire. Off-road well, on the rare occasion I leave it on, I just hope I don't need more than a few inches of travel in the suspension while I drive in to a trail head.
Overall I love it, and will sacrifice the occasional lifted tire in the city just for the comfort in the corners. To review this offroad is not fair as it was never intended for that purpose, and we all take our bars off on the trail anyway.
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Brenda ( Mustang Registry )
The Skunk ( Traxxas Registry )
Petite Pied ( Explorer Registry )
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cherrybomb
Elite Explorer
Registered: April 2005
Posts: 220
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Review Date: Wed November 28, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Vastly improved handling and driver confidence
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The only made-to-fit anti-sway bar for the explorer. Installation was fairly straight forward, just make sure you have a hydraulic press, or a torch to get the old bushings out if you're replacing the end link bushings in the rear.
I purchased the rear bar (only one I needed to upgrade on my 99') and polyurethane bushings for the front, as well as polyurethane end links/bushings. The whole package came out to around $260 after tax and shipping.
During the process of doing the replacement, I wound up having to take my rear end links to a shop to have the old bushings pressed out. As a result I drove (very carefully) with the rear bar completely removed. To be perfectly honest, while I didn't really "push" the truck in this configuration, I could detect no real difference between the stock bar, and none at all!!
Once I got the new bar installed, the difference is quite literally night and day. While there still is some small amount of body roll when you first start to turn, it is almost instantly arrested by this bar. And the performance of the bar seems to increase the further you explore the limits. Taking a turn at 15 or 45 seems to result in the same amount of body roll.
I won't own another explorer without this upgrade!
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Check out my Elite Registry
Check out my blog
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40893
Wannabe Elite Explorer
Registered: February 2008
Posts: 84
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Review Date: Fri March 21, 2008
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 0
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Pros:
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heard good things bout it
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Cons:
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none
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dont have this but do yall think it will take the play out of my steering?
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