rear vs front sway br

Hi guy i just get into wondering what could be the difference putting the front sway bar of a cj at the rear. I wonder because at the moment i fit one under my 1975 cj 5 v8 360. At the moment it is at the front but i would like to put it at the rear. Anyone have try this before?

 

Why? The front dictates most of the handling. I could see adding another to the rear if wanted to decrease chassis roll but why remove from the front and put in the rear?

 

Because i find that there is lot more stress at the back while taking a curve than the front...another thing the spring at the rear use to flex a lot more than the front and i cannot see any effect of the front sway bar in the front. Front spring flex a lot less than the rear. So having a rear sway with rear leaf that flex a little too much is maybe the sollution to my problem. I would like to know if the way i'm thinking about this problem or there's something else...

 

Drive it with the front anti sway bar connected then disconnect it and drive again. If it's set up correctly you will notice a big difference in handling. This is assuming your springs are not mis matched front to rear or something else weird.

 

Some vehicles have front sway bars, some have front and rear, but I've never heard of any vehicle with a rear only swaybar. There has to be a reason for that. I'm thinking there could be some weird handling around corners if the front was leaning more than the rear.

 

Completely un-scientific here. But I would think that would cause a car to "push" even more then it does stock. Being that the rear tires would have better traction then the fronts. But again I could be completely wrong.

 

Actually it is the opposite, if you were to remove the front sway bar and add it to the rear, you would have a vehicle that would be very loose (or oversteer, fishtail or what ever you want to call it, I call it a tank slapper). The front sway bar is the most important location and stable from a handling concern.

 

IIRC (through the fog of time) the front of the vehicle is typically heavier and has the highest center of gravity which creates the greatest roll force. By placing the anti-sway bar on the front you can control the maximum amount of lean without flexing the frame to accomplish the task. As the diameter of the bar increases it starts to inhibit individual travel so if more roll control is needed a rear bar is added.