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I have no idea how to order, but why not make your own? I cut the stock links in half, found some tubing that would fit over the posts and drilled out holes for trailer hitch pin clips. Had them for around ten years with no problems.
 






I have no idea how to order, but why not make your own? I cut the stock links in half, found some tubing that would fit over the posts and drilled out holes for trailer hitch pin clips. Had them for around ten years with no problems.
Do you have pictures of the home made dissconects?
 






No pictures, and I no longer have the disconnects. Don't even have the front suspension. It only took me about an hour and the only cost was some scrap thick-walled tubing and a few dollars for the hitch pin clips. I think it was 1/2" ID tubing. If you decide in the future to lift your Explorer, you can just get longer pieces of tubing to keep the sway bar level.

After disconnecting the sway bar, you can just push the sway bar up as high as it will go out of the way. The bushings should keep it in place.

I saw someone else who just found some hitch pins that fit in the axle sway bar mounts bolt holes. They cut the pins down to length, drilled new holes in the pins...done.

I used these type pin clips
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Here is a quick diagram of the disconnects I made up (not to scale);
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I would give this a try. If they don't work out for you, you are only out a few dollars. The stock pieces are cast steel so they are not perfectly round. You may have to grind some casting lines and round them out a little with a grinder. Take your time to get the tubing to fit as snug as possible, without being too hard to remove / install. I had to mark the tubes for left/right, top/bottom and front/rear as I did not get the holes drilled perfectly even. To do that, all I did was use a paint pen to put an arrow pointing to the top hole and then wrote "R" for right side. I set it up so the markings were on the back of the tubing.
 






Or do what I do - just pull the bolts out of the lower link! That's what I've done for 15 years now. Just carry the right wrench, it takes one minute per bolt. Two bolts, push the bar up out of the way, done.
Hitching it back up can be easier than hitching up with the quick disconnects.
And the best part? Free!
 






Free IS always better, but I went with trailer hitch pins.

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Just ground the pin down to fit through the bushing, put the hitch pin through and added the clip, marked the other edge, welded on a washer on that mark and it has worked of me for two years now no problem...when I disconnect, I swing the sway bar up as far as it can go and keep it up with a bungee cord hooked to the chassis, but I may be redesigning that sometime soon.

Simpler would be drill a hole through the bolt/cut a groove into the threads and grab two pin clips to fit...
 






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