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General Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: chrisfranklin on February 13, 2007, 05:38:26 PM
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http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=358591
Did a google search on boomerang shackles and somehow came across mention of an 07 E-Disconnect Sway Bar install on a YJ
The owner who did the install on his YJ said the price for this electronic sway bar - as a part available by order through your local Jeep Dealership - was just $80! (Apparently a pricing error, but it sounds like a few guys were able to take advantage of it; as of 1/25/07 Jeep re-priced it at $1500 :'(
However, sounds like the owner cooked the electronic disconnect motor and fabricated a manual set up. Install required just 11/4 inch poly bushings, fabrication of a cab-mount switch plate, installation of a mounting bracket and some wiring. Pretty cool, though.
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That's a good way to add more weight and make a simple system overly complicated just to be lazy. :fish:
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thats pretty sweet but for a yj you really dont need sway bars IMO
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well it does definitely have the Cool gadget factor :thumbsup: , However I have never seen anything made more complicated when all you need is a quick-pull on the the pins that hold a traditional discoonect together...... right up there with the automatic locking hubs in the old 1/2ton Fords that needed to be backed up to relaese them, atleast that was how they were supposed to work!
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That he pulled it off on a YJ is pretty cool - holy crap you can put coil springs, e-lockers and now an e-disconnect sway bar on those old things. And the price for the assembly, at least when he did it, was pretty great - 80 bucks. Heck for 80 bucks, I'd have given the lazy a$% routine a try myself :lol:
But, with Jeeps, you've gotta get out to air-down anyway. You might as well pull the pins on the disconnects and lock the manual hubs - if you have them - while your out there; same with airing back up and reconnecting. And it doesn't appear to have been bullet-proof reliable for the guy, either. It looks like he ended up pulling the bar's motor out - scary.