How to Use sway bar in a Sentence

sway bar

noun
  • To cut weight, the Demon does use a smaller front sway bar and brakes than the Hellcat, but customers are free to lard back up.
    WSJ, 20 July 2017
  • Yet on a rainy, slippery night, Flores climbed to the top of her precarious sway bar.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The Edition 1 pictured here includes only a front sway bar.
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Springs of every size and weight, sway bars, flips, toggles and steering wheels—every corner is full.
    James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2019
  • According to the seller, the car's suspension has Bilstein B12 struts, camber plates, and new front control arm bushings and a rear sway bar.
    Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 29 July 2022
  • Chassis maintenance includes new ball joints and tie-rod ends plus fresh bushings for the lower control arms, sway bar, and tension rod.
    Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 12 May 2019
  • Put it in Rock Crawl mode and disconnect the front sway bar (and use the Bronco’s available exterior cameras to navigate those rocks).
    Karl Brauer, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • An aftermarket Carli torsion sway bar keeps the EarthRoamer from handling like a bloated tow truck.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The Kings' bench might as well have been equipped with a sway bar to keep passengers in place during the emotional roller coaster that was the final seconds of their 4-3 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.
    Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Gearheads can tinker with a car's suspension, tire pressure, intake manifold, engine block, sway bars, clutch, the works.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2015
  • This spendy extra includes carbon fiber front and rear sway bars and coupling rods, plus some carbon fiber bits on the interior, dropping another 13lbs.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The Rebel makes do without the Power Wagon's disconnecting sway bar, sacrificing a measure of front wheel travel in exchange for a more rigid setup.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2022
  • One of our favorite touches: the switches to disconnect the front sway bar (if equipped) and lock or unlock the axles are conveniently located and easy to spot on the fly when the driver needs to pay attention to what's happening outside.
    Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • RideTech shocks, sway bars, and side exhausts were also installed, as was a completely custom four-link rear suspension by Ringbrothers.
    Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Finally, a row of buttons on top of the dash allow quick access to locking differentials, sway bar disconnect and Trail Turn Assist settings on Broncos with those features.
    Karl Brauer, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • The enhanced grip is complemented by a host of model-specific chassis tweaks that include stiffer springs and beefed-up sway bars, revised adaptive dampers, firmer engine and transmission mounts and a new aluminum strut brace in the engine bay.
    Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Among these are locking the front and rear differentials (since this is a true four-wheel-drive vehicle, there is no center differential) disengaging the front sway bar or activating trail turn assist.
    Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • The Rubicon model has locking front, center and rear differentials, electronically disconnecting sway bars (for more wheel articulation) and off-road cruise control for crawling.
    Mark Maynard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2019

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