A sway bar can help reduce your vehicle's body roll
The stabilizer bar severs two main functions. The first is to help reduce body lean. When you enter a sharp turn quickly your body tends to lean to the outside of the turn. Well your car does the same thing. The weight of the car is transferred to the outside of the turn away from the inside of the turn. In other words, the body of the car "rolls" 10 or 20 or 30 degrees toward the outside of the turn. The reason this is bad for your vehicle is that it can actually lift the tires off the ground on the inside of the turn if you are traveling to fast causing the car to tip or roll over.
Roll can be very bad for your vehicle. Ideally you would like for all four tires to remain flat with the weight evenly distributed between them for best traction. When your car rolls to a side you loose traction on the opposite and the weight swings to one side of the car.
When you go into a turn now, the front suspension member of the outside of the turn gets pushed upward. The arm of the stabilizer bar gets pushed upward, and this applies torsion to the rod. The torsion them moves the arm at the other end of the rod, and this causes the suspension on the other side of the car to compress as well. The car's body tends to stay flat in the turn.
There is a drawback to a anti-sway bar too. Because an anti-roll bar connects wheels on the opposite sides of the vehicle together, the bar will transmit the force of one-wheel bumps to the opposite wheel.
Popular Brands of Stabilizer Bars
- · Agency Power Stabilizer Bar
- · Skunk2 Stabilizer Bar
- · Tanabe Racing Stabilizer Bar
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