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I'll admit that I was immediately intrigued when I found out that Sasquatch models were coming with a sway bar from the factory sometime in 2022 / 2023. It seems like the bean counters at Ford would push their own grandmother down a flight of stairs if it meant saving $.03 on a part, so if they incurred the cost to add a sway bar to some models, they probably had a damn good reason too. My 2022 Badlands Non-Sas 4 door did not come with one stock, but I did have the mounting spots on the axle / frame. Yes, I've gone off-road and would like as much articulation as possible, but this is also my daily and family vehicle where 99% of the miles will be on pavement
Part #s
Tools used: 15mm and 19mm deep sockets, 15mm and 19mm ratcheting wrenches, and an adjustable wrench (for the ends of the sway bar links).
I jacked the vehicle up right to the point where the rear tires were about to leave the pavement and set with jack stands. I did not remove the tires. I really struggled to get the sway bar clamp on the passenger side past the gas tank, until I realized that the clamp could be removed by depressing little tabs that held it on.
Once I removed that clamp, I was able to muscle it over the diff and around the gas tank without removing anything else. From there it was just a matter of installing the nuts and bolts. I tightened all the nuts to be close to tight and then bounced the vehicle up and down several times to make sure it was at normal ride height before torquing down fully. I did not have the torque specs, but tight is tight. It took me about an hour 15 minutes to install, and probably could have saved the 15 minutes if I had just removed that clamp from the bar in the beginning.
Initial impressions after a drive is that it is much more 'flat', but its a rougher ride for bumps that only one side of the vehicle encounters. One big thing I noticed is that it used to be around fast corners it would lean one way, and then lean the other way once you straightened out, but now it does not. It stays fairly flat and there is no 'bounce back'. This certainly isn't enough to induce any level of oversteer, or even neutral handling, but being a factory spec bar, this isn't surprising. Still heaps of understeer when pushing it.
I'll try to remember to pop back into this thread to give a longer term update.
Part #s
Tools used: 15mm and 19mm deep sockets, 15mm and 19mm ratcheting wrenches, and an adjustable wrench (for the ends of the sway bar links).
I jacked the vehicle up right to the point where the rear tires were about to leave the pavement and set with jack stands. I did not remove the tires. I really struggled to get the sway bar clamp on the passenger side past the gas tank, until I realized that the clamp could be removed by depressing little tabs that held it on.
Once I removed that clamp, I was able to muscle it over the diff and around the gas tank without removing anything else. From there it was just a matter of installing the nuts and bolts. I tightened all the nuts to be close to tight and then bounced the vehicle up and down several times to make sure it was at normal ride height before torquing down fully. I did not have the torque specs, but tight is tight. It took me about an hour 15 minutes to install, and probably could have saved the 15 minutes if I had just removed that clamp from the bar in the beginning.
Initial impressions after a drive is that it is much more 'flat', but its a rougher ride for bumps that only one side of the vehicle encounters. One big thing I noticed is that it used to be around fast corners it would lean one way, and then lean the other way once you straightened out, but now it does not. It stays fairly flat and there is no 'bounce back'. This certainly isn't enough to induce any level of oversteer, or even neutral handling, but being a factory spec bar, this isn't surprising. Still heaps of understeer when pushing it.
I'll try to remember to pop back into this thread to give a longer term update.
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