Another Sta-Bar Disconnect Saga

[zuke]

There is a opportunity to produce a aftermarket product for all the units that don't have the disconnect. If I remember correctly, there are several options for the Jeep line. I have been waiting for this as an alternative to buying the OEM version and retrofitting it on my WIldtrak. This could also be a replacement for the failed units?

The push button solutions for Jeep are actually pretty similar in cost to retrofitting the OEM one to a Bronco..

I've got a Mopar Rubicon disconnect on my wife's daily driver gladiator with an EVO Manufacturing control on it. I paid nothing for it, it was given to me by the P.O. for work I was doign there JL Rubicon..

But to retrofit it new would have cost around 2k for the OEM disconnect, and a couple hundred more for the EVO Control (They have a couple options for that)..

Terraflex makes a pneumatic one for Jeeps now that goes for around $1700, I don't have any experience with it yet. It wouldn't surprise me if they adapt that one to the Bronco... But again that would be similar in cost to OEM.

It's harder to design one for the Bronco because of the IFS. Sway bar links are longer on a Jeep, and go forward of the axle, making it easy to attach the links, While the Bronco ones need to drop directly down on top of the lower control arm, so are competing with the struts, springs, axle CVs, and a curved knuckle all in that same small space. Which is why manual disconnects are so much more of a pain on a Bronco too.

If Terraflex does adapt their pneumatic bar to the Bronco, with current prices a brand new factory disco is still the better deal.

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