sway bind

[buZy]

What is sway bar bind? If possible in what basic ways can I begin testing to find out?

Curious if my rear bar facing front is doing just that.

[JMortensen]

You should be able to move the suspension all through the travel and the sway bar should not contact anything. When I removed the springs and disconnected the passenger side of the sway bar and jacked up the driver's side suspension my front mounted bar hit the floor in just outside of frame rails IIRC (its been at least a year since I checked it but that seems right). I had driven it that way for a long time and had never realized it was doing that from the driver's seat, but it was really obvious when I checked it out with a floor jack. I don't know that the bar would have done this if I hadn't had the car so low.

 

What damage does this do? Well, my Z was pulling the inside rear tire off the ground in slaloms which is pretty unusual, and I'm sure it made the back end of the car act funny as the rear swaybar would have a set spring rate, then when it bound that spring rate would go way up since it could only spring on the side that wasn't bound.

 

In general terms you don't want ANY suspension part to be limited in its movement until you hit the bumpstops or the strut tops out. Other types of binding would include TC rods with poly bushings since they don't allow the suspension to move freely all the way through it's travel, or coil springs that have been cut too short so that the coils bind before the suspension bottoms.

[buZy]

I understand what you mean by suspension and motion binding in reguards to travel. The rear bar I checked its motion and it does not hit the frame. Bar also pivots freely in car when end links removed. Would it be safe to assume that the bar is working properly for most part?