NOOB sway bar disconnect question

[Rita Runner]

I installed my lift, so I know that the springs aren’t really connected to anything. So if I put a sway bar disconnect in, and flex all the way, what prevents the springs from coming out?

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[maestro5531]

Shock absorber, sway bar does not hold your springs in any way.

 

[DarthAWM]

If you are terribly worried about it, I would like to introduce you to
limit straps

But like has been said your shocks should limit travel to less than what would allow a spring release

 

[Jbudz511]

Shock absorber, sway bar does not hold your springs in any way.

The shocks can be one of the things that "keep" the springs in place, but OP you're correct the springs aren't really attached to anything.

What's actually keeping your spring in place is pressure/weight on the spring from the body of the jeep itself. Which is why if someone builds a setup that has some serious flex you can lose a spring if you can droop enough at a corner. There are plenty of examples of people doing this all over the interwebs lol.

To Maestro's point generally speaking all complete kits are typically sold or recommend shocks of a certain length to prevent this.

Also some companies claim their spring design helps keep enough expansion (not sure if that's the right term but i think you get it) so they stay seated over a longer travel.

Hope that helps.

 

[maestro5531]

The shocks can be one of the things that "keep" the springs in place, but OP you're correct the springs aren't really attached to anything.

What's actually keeping your spring in place is pressure/weight on the spring from the body of the jeep itself. Which is why if someone builds a setup that has some serious flex you can lose a spring if you can droop enough at a corner. There are plenty of examples of people doing this all over the interwebs lol.

To Maestro's point generally speaking all complete kits are typically sold or recommend shocks of a certain length to prevent this.

Also some companies claim their spring design helps keep enough expansion (not sure if that's the right term but i think you get it) so they stay seated over a longer travel.

Hope that helps.

Spring can certainly fall out but with proper bump stops, spring isolator, shock length and rest of suspension attached its does not happen unless in extreme conditions.

 

[Jbudz511]

Spring can certainly fall out but with proper bump stops, spring isolator, shock length and rest of suspension attached its does not happen unless in extreme conditions.

It's true the likelihood is way less for sure. When you see people building dedicated rigs and are really designing it from the ground up they do certainly worry about that a bit more or they build and test what they think works and all of a sudden they lose a spring during testing lol.

Ive also seen videos of people thrashing stock vehicles and the spring pops out, to your point, usually when the vehicle gets airborne

 

[Rita Runner]

The lift kit installed was the mopar 2” kit, so I assume all the parts are sized correctly. I thought that it must be the shock “expansion“ limit That keeps it all together. I guess when I installed the lift, the springs went in first, by dropping one side of the axel far enough to get it in. Then the other side, then the shocks were attached. I never checked after that to see how much travel there was in it.

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