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FloydExplorer

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any know of a anti roll system for leaf springs?

i saw them on the news and i can't remmber the name of them. They are anti roll system. They attach to your leaf springs and look like little shocks. I think the name might be Roadmaster or handlers i don't know. Anyone else see that broadcast or know what i am talking about.
 



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Sounds kinda sketchy to me. Have you considered aftermaket swaybars and stiffer shocks to help control body roll?
 












I think he means this:
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It would help us and others to better help you if you were more descriptive with your thread title as opposed to "can some please help me...".
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Ray Lobato
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I have seen these dampeners, but I don't know if they really do anything for getting rid of the sway. I do know that if you put poly bushings on your anti-sway bars, it will help get rid of that sway, conciderably, because they are stiffer that the rubber bushings that come stock. Hope this helps.
 






thank you all for the replys. I am sorry about the thread topic and i made that correction.
I think X-factor has the right idea. it was something like that but the ones im thinking about only connected to the leaf spring and not the axel, if thats what is happening in that pic.
Ray, if i do put the stiffer dampers on there with it make my ride less comfortable. if anyone has road in a Trailblazer, that is the handleing im a tring to get. Any thoughts or suggestion on how i would achive that type of ride comfort?
 






Well, I have never ridden in a Trailblazer, so I don't know what that's like.
Can you explain what exactly are you trying to accomplish?
Smoother ride?
Less sway?
Both?

I know that changing the sway bar bushings to poly bushings will give you less sway than the stock rubber bushings, and I'm sure that they will cost you alot less than dampeners will.
 






im looking for smoothest ride with the most limited sway possible. so both i guess. the best way to discribe it would have to be , if you ever rode in a Caddy (car) and had the floaty feeling. Thats what im tring to achive.
 






It's going to be very hard to get that feeling in an Explorer just because of the way the suspension is set up. After all, it's a truck.
 






I think the closest you could get to the Caddy ride is to eliminate some of the leaf springs and put on small wheels with 85 series soft highway tires. And oh, very soft shocks and no swaybars...
 






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