A Carli The torsion sway bar is a great upgrade as it allows for easier articulation and smoother ride with single sided bumps. Instead of the stiff, stock sway bar throwing you out of your seat over ruts or in/out of driveways, a torsion sway bar will glide right over those features and allow the suspension to soak things up without transferring that energy to the cab.
Like any other spring native to a stock Super Duty, the factory Sway Bar is nearly immobile. Conversely, it’s the most neglected spring on the vehicle as people fail to look past the front coils and rear leaf springs when looking to “soften” the factory ride. Well, the factory sway bar is essentially a brace locking the axle to the frame. What does this mean? What you hit with one tire is immediately transferred to the other tire and into the frame causing a high frequency reverberation/chatter felt in the cab. If you’ve ever hit a manhole cover on the driver’s side tire and felt a shake in the entire truck or you’ve ever entered an off-camber driveway and smacked your head on the window – you can thank the factory sway bar. Truth be told, it’s responsible for many of the small-bump compliance gripes thanks to immobility.
So where does the factory sway bar come in? These trucks are heavy pigs… Even being radius arms (MUCH better for sway control than a 4-Link), a bit of supporting spring rate plays a substantial roll in keeping the body roll in check and suspension composed. The Factory sway bar is setup to load the truck to it’s MAX legal weight and haul it safely – for this application, there’s no better bar. Throw a 3,500 pound cab-over camper in the bed and hit some remote mountain roads en-route to your destination and it all starts to make sense why Ford did what they did.
For everyone that’s not loaded to the GVWR daily, the Carli Torsion Sway Bar provides the final link lightening the last spring on the truck maximizing the ride quality of the Super Duty Platform. Keeping your factory bar limits comfort, removing it completely makes for questionable control when hauling or emergency maneuvering. After several revisions and years in development, the Carli Torsion Sway Bar Splits the Difference perfectly allowing a small amount of differentiation side to side before progressively engaging to add the needed control as leverage is applied. Rip corners in the dirt with surgical precision knowing there’s exactly enough rate to hold the body steady while cutting your line through the dirt. Hit the tarmac and enjoy the benefit of the lighter rate bar cruising around town with it’s on-road feel reminiscent of an independent front suspension – no more chassis reverberation on small bumps and let the suspension dance in the level cab while hitting off-camber driveways
Please note: End links are REQUIRED for proper function. Unless you already have them, they are not optional.
SKU: CS-FTSB-LVL-17
– Direct Fitment to Carli Leveling Lifts
– Replaces Immobile Factory Sway Bar with Custom Torsion Bar
– Huge Ride Quality Improvement
– Includes CS-FEL-LVL-17 Drop Brackets and Sway Bar Links
– Fitment: 2017+ Ford F250/F350 4×4
Customer Reviews
Much bigger than they look! The reservoirs are huge and look great. Install was easy and CJC answered any questions I had as I did my install personally. I paired mine with Carli progressive leaf springs, torsion sway bar, radius arms, along with upper and lower Carli steering stabilizers which I highly recommend! Adds a solid smooth steering feel and it’s fully adjustable to what tires you want to get a correct alignment. Just out of the box and thrown on the truck feels incredible without refining. The truck feels solid and smooth on the road. Off road bumps or pot holes are barely noticed. If you’re thinking back country or commuter, don’t. Just get these and your set with literally the best all around function. You don’t need to go with everything I did at first, just get the pathfinder kit, steering stabilizers, and torsion sway bar in that order and you will be stoked.
This is a game changer! Can finally run 37’s on factory wheels with no rubbing! I absolutely love it! Would highly recommend!!
You better be very confident in your abilities and patient, if you're going to install this yourself. That being said, it works great. It's nice not getting slammed into the window, when I turn into approaches now. Once I reinstall the progressive leaf springs that you guys has to re send because they sag 2", she will be complete. Hopefully this set is true level, lol. I appreciate CJC working with me to remedy that.
I think this is an underrated and overlooked upgrade. Must have for ride improvement
CJC customer service was somewhat helpful with questions related to post install alignment but I had to call Carli directly to get a direct answer about the track bar.
(The track bar is a pain and there are better ones on the market i.e. Synergy)
The Torsion bar and radius arms look great and make a big difference in my ride, that’s a plus. However, Carli grossly overshot the powder coating into the splines which took install from easy to hard instantaneously. I think that’s crazy for such an expensive part and I was surprised at the sloppiness Carli let leave the building.
Overall, pretty good but between the painful track bar, the powder coated splines, and meh customer service… Could have been better.
