eric©
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- February 1, 2005
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- City, State
- Detroit, MI (yeppers, redneck white boy invading D-town! :-P)
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1991 XLT 4x4
Finished the lift on my X over the weekend, now I have MASSIVE body sway at any speed above 45mph, to the point of the truck feeling like its very close to losing control and flipping over. I have no clue what the manufacturer of the front lift is, it's 4" coils, and drop bracket for the passenger beam, drop plates for the driver's beam and RA mounts. Drop pitman arm. I did a SOA in the rear. Stock shocks mounted below axle (reversed shock mounts). I yanked sway bars front and rear (always have run sans sway bars on all my 4x4s, I'm quite used to driving without them). I know the front alignment is still a bit out of whack from the lift (planning on installing spacers this weekend to level the truck, then get it aligned).
Does the lack of a sway bar on the TTB suspension really make for an unstable truck? My alignment is a bit on the toe out side, but seems to drive OK. It drives fine at slow speeds, but once i'm up to 35+, I hit a bump, body sways to one side, back to the other, back to the first, etc. Getting worse and worse until I slow down. It's doing the same thing as if I was sawing the steering wheel back and forth, only a LOT worse. It reminds me a lot of the death wobble that Jeeps get, only in the body instead of the steering wheel.
Does the lack of a sway bar on the TTB suspension really make for an unstable truck? My alignment is a bit on the toe out side, but seems to drive OK. It drives fine at slow speeds, but once i'm up to 35+, I hit a bump, body sways to one side, back to the other, back to the first, etc. Getting worse and worse until I slow down. It's doing the same thing as if I was sawing the steering wheel back and forth, only a LOT worse. It reminds me a lot of the death wobble that Jeeps get, only in the body instead of the steering wheel.
