Opps, How's This Happen

While you all were at Windrock Sat., some friends, my dad and me went riding, rode 70 miles in a bout 5 to 6 hours. I drove the rzr and he rode in my brothers 1000 XTZ. We had backup tires (doughnut tires 25") since we seem to blow rear tires, and I broke the rear sway bar. There are some pics of it, then after cleaning we noticed the front axle seals leaking (with water in it). We know the rears were leaking so order the parts, but we are going riding this Friday and Saturday. We are going to change the fluids and may make a temporary sway bar just to get through this weekend. I just want to know how do you break a rear sway bar. We were riding fast and it was not rough plus we grease it about every other week. I still don't know when it broke I just chalked it up to the little tires.

Just chunk the sway-bar. Articulation is much better without it and the shocks work more independently also.

Well Fred, you got a lot of miles on that machine. I agree though, that sway bar is a head scratcher.

Try it with the sway bar off like Jim said. You may like it.

You know what I think about the sway bar....... I have three of them setting in the corner of the garage. One off the Rhino, one off the stock RZR and one off the rebuilt RZR.

It looks like a vibration crack started that. It almost looks like the factory bend caused to much stress.....????

Since when are sway bars hollow? Is that a popo thing?

if you have a lift that puts more stress on the sway bar. you can flip the sway bar and it will not be stressed as bad. i ran a super atv lift on my LE and the lift directions said to flip it.

I think a lot of sway bars are going hollow due to light weight. I do know in a sway bar you just need a material the resists twisting whether it be hollow or solid. The sway bar will stay on since we are use to it and it lets us power slide through turns so much better. When I realized it broke the rzr would not turn into the high speed corners as well just would not slide.
The more we look at it there seemed to be a crack that just finally gave way. Hope to make a new one today for the weekend. I will take a picture of it then.

nitefab wrote:

......... When I realized it broke the rzr would not turn into the high speed corners as well just would not slide.

Sounds like you need a big bore kit. Do you know how to install one

wow Ive never seen one break.....