how do sway bars work?

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Feb 13, 2003 | 06:46 AM
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Just curious, must have missed that lesson at school. thanks for the help.
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Feb 13, 2003 | 08:22 AM
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Re: how do sway bars work? (hs2000)
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question432.htm

might help
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Feb 14, 2003 | 08:34 PM
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Re: how do sway bars work? (99MRSI)
thanks for the help, that was a really good artical.
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Feb 15, 2003 | 10:00 PM
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Re: how do sway bars work? (hs2000)
no prob... Its very rare that I help anybody
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Feb 15, 2003 | 11:12 PM
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Re: how do sway bars work? (hs2000)
That article is actually kind of off...I haven't seen that occur on that web page before.

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Roll is bad. It tends to put more weight on the outside tires and less weigh on the inside tires, reducing traction. It also messes up steering. What you would like is for the body of the car to remain flat through a turn so that the weight stays distributed evenly on all four tires.
The roll of the car doesn't really have much to do with the weight distribution. You could set up a car such that it rolls the totally opposite way, but weight distribution will remain more or less unchanged.

They also omit another fundamental function of sway bars, but perhaps someone else should explain that...
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