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obfirefighter22

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Hey guys, I've had a 6 inch lift on my truck for over 2 years and even the different mechanics I know look at it and say that the lift looks great/new even after 2 years and that they can tell professional installed it right. With that being said... Every few months one of my sway bar links will break. I do drive kinda fast and might take turns alittle faster than I should sometimes(I know the limitations of my truck). So I'm wondering if there might be something I can look at that might be causing this or if it's

my driving along with a lift that's doing it? If it's my driving that's breaking these then that's fine, but Id atleast like to find a more heavy duty sway bar link available. I may be wrong but I believe the away bar links from a 1500 are the same as the 2500, and the 3500.

 

One thing I have heard, one of my buddies that's a mechanic said it looked like the factory ones I have aren't long enough... And I can see his point because it seems to be kinda tight to fit the replacement ones in. I don't over tighten either.

 

So any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

Oh and Ive been meaning to post new pictures(and I will soon), but I've installed heavy duty brush guard , 2 driving lights on the brush guard with hid's to match my fogs/high/ and low beam. I also custom fab'ed a flush mount tool box to fit in my truck cause the wheel well makes normal ones not fit, I Aldo line x'ed it to match my bed. I added a gm lockpick to my nav unit it, With it Hooke up to my rear DVD system, and also unfared keyhole camera mounted right above the hitch ball and below the bumper. I also changed out the stock dash with an escalade dash/bezel/ grab handle/and gear shifter. I fab'ed the escalade woodgrain pieces to match the dash color. I just in the past 2 days replaced my 35' procomp xterrrain tires with 35' toyo m/t(I love them so far). I installed real escalade door handles(painted bezel and chrome handle). And nnbs tailgate "silverado" logo. I'm putting in aux reverse lights and tinting the windows darker in the next week.

 

I think that's the new changes, beside new brakes and rotors all around, replaced steering wheel lights and replaced instrument cluster light(easy to fix).

grose67 Enthusiast

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I know the ones ON my truck are 4 inches longer than stock to compensate for the 4 inch lift. I found that out when I went to replace them after one broke/rusted through. I had two pieces of black iron piope cut and used all thread to make replacements. I used the bushings from a set of stock replacements.

Kon Man Enthusiast

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Sounds like a nice truck. I would recommend a set of longer sway bar end links. You can sometimes find them at your local autozone of O'reillys. For 6" lifts, they are usually included in the kits.

redvett Senior Enthusiast

redvett

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The stabilizer bar must be parallel to the ground and with a 6" lift the links will need to be lengthened until the bar is level.

usmc3529 Enthusiast

usmc3529

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depends on the lift kit and truck. alot of different lift options but not all use oem geometry to keep steering angles etc like stock, thus running into issues with links etc.

 

I just installed my bds 6 in ifs full suspension lift and the sway bar links fit perfect, the bds kit is lifetime warranty on all pieces no queston asked and use all oem angles!

obfirefighter22 Enthusiast

obfirefighter22

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Well I have a pro comp 6, the stock links fit, but it seems like they could use alittle longer links... Not even an inch. It doesn't seem like I'm stressing anything to get oem links in

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