THE BLUE BIRD BOUNCE

[nedb]

(06-02-2013 22:06)davidmbrady Wrote:  Regarding the anti-sway bar. It's not just my suggestion, it's Ridewell's too. I gave Bill Mattocks at Ridewell the dimensions for our steer axle sway bars and he was astonished. He said he wouldn't even use something that stiff on the drive axle. If we were to retain the same width and arm dimensions Bill suggested a bar of around 1 5/8" in diameter would be suitable. No other Ridewell equipped Wanderlodge has a steer axle anti-sway bar and they all handle fine.

Hey David--

Would you care to speculate on why bb put the anti-sway on these front axles? I can come up with two situations that suggest anti-sway would have benefits:

Does a de-anti-sway bar'd coach tend to get lifted and shoved to the right by truck air waves? (Picture a 40-50K lb coach being buffeted by truck wind. LOL )

Easier to imagine the coach rolling more to the outside of turns, without the anti-sway. Does anyone note a change there?

--Ned