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[Chad Fernandez]

How is an anti-sway bar going to stiffin the ride over a bump that much? 
  If the axle hops you have to be running over the bump with both 
wheels, at which point both ends of the anti-sway bar rotate up.

I notice that many Dodge 1-tons have a bar in the back, although, my 
Chevy doesn't.  I'm not sure about Fords.  My Chevy take corners pretty 
good, although, I suppose if I went fast enough the back end would break 
loose.  It doesn't really lean very much with the stiff springs and all.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Yeahboy.  A pickup truck pushes going into a corner, and is loose off -
> most stock pickups perform horribly in terms of manuverability.  That's
> fine, I never pretend my truck is a Honda Civic - It's a big truck.  Not
> much can be done on solid-axle pickups, even with anti-sway bars it
> still handles like a giant vehicle.  Anti-sway bars help body lean and
> roll, but stiffen up the suspension (at least in my experience) so that
> moderate bumps in the road can cause pretty severe axle-hop.  If you
> don't know how to react to axle-hop, you're fucked.