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Hey, neighbors, Kevin here with etrailer. And today we’re gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Roadmaster front anti-sway bar here on our 2022 Ford F-53 chassis. If you’ve ever driven a class A motorhome, then you know firsthand that even though it wasn’t purchased on your package, sway comes standard. All of the heavy crosswinds that you face going up against this rectangle body, forcing it side to side as you’re making those tight turns, especially on these roads where it’s really, really narrow and you don’t really have much room to work with. Trying to stabilize yourself so that you can track straight and not start leaning over into another lane and potentially hitting something or hitting another vehicle is gonna be super important. Now the idea behind this is that this is going to be another cross member that’s gonna be running between your two frame rails.

Your frame rails like to start to kind of twist and bend as the vehicle’s weight shifts back and forth. So adding in a few more supports to go between the two helps stiffen that up and give you a much safer ride quality here. Now, typically, what we like to start with is the anti-sway bar at both the front and at the back. Now on most vehicles it’s required in the front, but at the back it’s not always the case. Luckily with this motorhome, it did come with a front one and rear, so it was a little bit of support already to start with, but it just wasn’t really what our neighbor was wanting out of his ride quality.

So at the front, you typically aren’t going to be adding a second one in. You’ll usually be replacing what’s already there, and what you’re looking for is you wanna get a thicker diameter on your anti-sway bar. So with this one, we we inchesre switching from a two inch up to a 2 1/8 inch, and that 1/8 inch is going to be about a 20% difference in the quality there. So even though it seems like, you know, this is a little bit ridiculous, we’re only getting an eighth of an inch bigger, it does make a difference. From there, if you’re still having issues after installing your anti-sway bars, and you’re gonna wanna also add in a steering stabilizer, which Roadmaster offers a few options as well.

And that’s also gonna be at the front end here and it’s gonna help try and keep that tracking straight and not have you white knuckling at the wheel quite as much. From there, the other option is starting to look into jounce bumpers and air bags, and what that’s gonna do is stiffen up the suspension so it doesn’t give you that room for the body to sway back and forth as much. So there are options out there for you, but this is gonna be the one that I recommend to start with. This kit is going to come with everything that you need to install the front anti-sway bar, but it is gonna be reusing some of the original hardware that you already had on there. If yours is kind of rusted up, I definitely recommend picking up some penetrant and spraying it on there, letting it soak in, and kind of break off all of that rust so that way you can possibly reuse it.

If not, if you cannot reuse it, then you wanna make sure that you go and you get the same grade bolt with the same thread size and length. That way you’re making sure that you’re gonna have it be able to withstand that pressure it’s gonna put on it because it has those four bolts that are help holding it in up against the axle, and that’s gonna be getting all that pressure as it starts to try and pull on the end links of it. So making sure that you have the right quality equipment is gonna make a huge difference here. Now with this install, it isn’t too difficult because you’re really just replacing like for like right here instead. So, honestly, this is something you probably could do at home, but if you don’t feel like crawling under your motorhome or maybe you just don’t have the time to do so, please feel free to use our dealer locator, and you can enter in your zip code and find a shop locally to get it professionally installed. If you are planning on doing it, then stick around and I’ll show you how to get it done. All right, starting off our install, we’re gonna need to get under our motorhome, and we’re gonna be removing the factory front sway bar to start with. And what I like to do is start with the end links because we’re gonn