Hellwig Front Anti-Sway Bar - 1-1/2" Diameter
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2002 Ford F-150
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Nothing throws focus off faster than feeling your rig sway in crosswinds or when big trucks pass. The solid 1-1/2" 4140 chromoly steel bar ties the front suspension together to minimize side-to-side movement. That means a more level ride, better steering control, and a calmer experience on long stretches of open road.
Tight turns or uneven pavement can make a heavy vehicle feel loose up front. This front anti-sway bar stabilizes weight transfer through corners so you can handle quick maneuvers with confidence. It keeps the vehicle flatter and more predictable, giving you that planted feel when you turn the wheel.
Hours on the road shouldn’t mean constantly correcting the steering wheel. By cutting down front-end sway, this bar helps the vehicle track straighter and react more smoothly. The reduced wandering means fewer micro-adjustments and a relaxed grip, even through gusty conditions or rough patches.
Instead of soft rubber, polyurethane bushings resist oil, gasoline, and ozone, so they don’t break down or lose shape over time. The solid chromoly bar wears a corrosion-resistant silver vein hammer tone powder coat, and the mounting brackets use a durable black powder coat. Together they hold up to years of weather and road grime without giving in.
The kit reuses existing end links, includes hardware and bushing lubricant, and bolts on cleanly with no drilling required. Straightforward directions make it easier to get the bar in place and back on the road with a tighter, more stable feel up front.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today, we have a 2011 Ford F-150 and we're going to be taking a look at, I'm going to show you how to install, the Hellwig Front Anti-Sway Bar. This anti-sway bar is designed to replace your factory anti-sway bar. It's going to be a little bit thicker design, coming in at an inch and a half in diameter, whereas your factory one is more like an inch and a quarter, inch and an eighth, something like that. This is just simply designed to help reduce the body roll when driving on windy roads, or if you hit big gusts of wind, this is going to help to keep your truck more centered than your factory one did. Now from the factory trucks, more and more are becoming more comfortable to drive.
And with that, that means the suspension is getting softer and anything like the sway bar, like the factory sway bar, is going to be softer. Adding this sway bar is going to, or anti-sway bar, is going to allow you to get a little bit more stiffness in the front end so that you feel more confident when you're driving down the road, whether you're hauling a load or not. The sway bar is not only going to outperform the factory sway bar, but the finish is also going to outperform because it's going to be a hammer tone finish, whereas the factory one, they can tend to rust quite a bit sooner than this is going to because it just has your standard factory powder coat on it. So that'd be another reason if you wanted to upgrade, is that this one is going to last much longer in those harsher chemicals that are on the road. If you're just swapping out the factory sway bar for this Hellwig sway bar, you may not see a huge difference because this truck does not come with a rear anti-sway bar.
I highly recommend if you're going to do one, go ahead and do the other, that way you get the best performance because after all, if you've got sway still in the rear of the truck, then the front end's not getting any help. But if you pair two anti-sway bars together, that's how you're going to get the best outcome possible because they're going to work together in order to keep that truck level. But with that being said, let's go ahead and pull it in the shop and show you how we did it. To begin our installation, we're going to take an 18 millimeter socket and on the ends of our sway bars, we're going to need to take the nuts off of them. We're going to leave all that lower hardware in place and we're going to hold on to the hardware that we take off 'cause we will be reusing it.
(power tool whirs) (power tool whirs) Now we'll take a 16 millimeter socket and remove the factory nuts off of our brackets here on both sides. (power tool whirs) (power tool whirs) Now we're going to take our bushings, put the grease that comes in your kit on the inside, and there's not a very large space here to be able to put them, so typically if it's a really long space, like the center of this bar is, you don't want to put them on before because you want them to be pretty close. But since this is, you know, there's only really two spots this can go, we're just going to stick them on here and put them right in the middle to start with and if we have to slide them either way, that's okay. Now we'll lift our new sway bar into place. We're going to put it over these end link bolts first.
Then we'll take one of our brackets. Slide it up and over. We'll grab our factory hardware along with our washers and get this in place. (screw clanking) I will take that 16 millimeter socket and snug these back up. (power tool whirs) I will come back and torque all of our hardware to the factory specifications. (tool clanking) Now when torquing down the end links, you're going to have to take a vice grip, grip the bottom of this bolt here. Otherwise, it's just going to keep spinning in the top of this ball joint. And then we can come back and torque it down. Now we need to take our stops, now these are designed to keep the sway bar from sliding side to side because our end links are flexible so they can move, but we don't want the sway bar moving. You'll just take the Allen head bolts out of it and then you want to make sure you've got them facing down so that you can still get to the heads, but then we'll just turn them back in. You want to butt it up right against it. Make sure your sway bar is side to side where you want it, and we can thread these back in. (power tool whirs) After we get everything tightened down to the specifications, that's going to do it for installation. Well, guys, hopefully this video helped you decide whether or not the Hellwig Front Anti-Sway Bar is right for you in your 2011 Ford F-150.
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Ratings & Reviews
These were very easy to install and have made a huge difference in the handling of the Motorhome. I highly recommend these to anyone wanting to increase the stability of their RV both on the road and also while parked. Added these first then later added the Roadmaster steering stabilizer and the difference is night and day! No more white knuckle driving!! Well worth the money.
Installation went very smooth. No issues, everything fit perfectly. Significant difference in the RV handling , stiffer ride and seems to handle the wind and tractor and trailers passing . Very satisfied and highly recommended.
Hellwig makes a decent product and fills the gap of many aftermarket stuff. My order could have been packaged better and it was also missing the bolts for the control arm links. Other than that installation was straightforward and would consider purchasing from either company.
The install video and product description shows you can use it in place of your existing swaybar. I watched all of the videos read the directions and the brackets did not lineup. Made sure it was for my make and model, had to make it work by bending a few brackets to fit. If I didn’t already have my RV disassembled in my driveway and was a pinch I would have returned it.
Had my doubts about anti-sway making much of difference, but after I installed it and took it for a test drive, it was like day and night, along with a steering damper it almost drove like my pickup. I just don't understand why these motorhome manufactures don't install these things at the factory. This greatly improves handling as well as safety. So if you do the white knuckle death grip driving I would highly recommend you have this installed along with a steering damper. No regrets.
It wasn't too hard to install yourself and it does make a difference with the sway
The installation went well. Lots of rolling on the ground! Allowed two hours was closer to four hours when completed. Will need to get some mileage on the motor home to determine if it was worth it.
Hellwig makes a great sway bar, and etrailer has great service ! What more can you ask ?
Big and Beefy! For years, Hellwig has been my go to vendor when it comes to suspension augmentation for my towing needs. I am not surprised at the quality of this front sway bar. I am paired it with a new Hellwig rear sway at as well. It will make a huge difference when towing my heavy fifth wheel.
My rig was equipped with one inch sway bars, front and back. Today was my first trip since I installed the inch and a half bar on the rear. Wind gust were up to 25mph. It made a world of difference in the effort it took to maintain my lane. Still took a little effort. I may go with the one and three eights bar on the front, along with sumo assist springs. That should eliminate all sway.
This with sumo front and rear and Bilstein shocks bought locally improved the stability of our sprinter class C by multiple factors.
The handling went from sucking to this is pretty good. Why did we wait 2 years?
I'm using both front and rear swaybars by Hellwig, along with a Safe T Plus steering stabilizer, and it's been like night and day when compared to what was OEM in my '25 Ford E450. I no longer experience the super flighty feeling when driving in high winds, and, while I won't say it drives just like my car, it is a much more solid and stable, and relaxed, driving experience.
Really improved the handling. Passing trucks on the interstate isn't as uncomfortable anymore. Generally I can now drive one handed. One person can change them but two would be easier.
sway bar adds strength to handle heavy tow and stability during normal driving. The big beast is actually much smoother with this and the Sumo spring helpers. It takes the annoying bounce out of the empty low weight drive also. Highly recommend!
Thanks for the help on determining if my sway bar link is ok to use on my 2001 Ford E350 or if it's at too much of an angle. Attached are a couple of pictures I took of my install.
Please let me know if there is anything additional I can provide.
Installed on 2026 F150 Tremor 402B. As the stock sway bar is even softer than the standard F150 HD bar to allow for more independant movement when offroading, this leads to increased body roll while onroad. The Hellwig sway bar exceeded my expectations for stabilizing and flattening the truck in turns. To have the trucks full offroad capability I just need to disconect the endlinks.Truck now handles incredibly well onroad, which is where is will mostly be driven. Installation was easy.
The sway bar is definitely beefy and well made. Now that it’s installed I’m pleased with it and hope it helps with cross winds. Two small issues with the install. First we were missing the 2.75” bolts and Hellwig shipped them to me FedEx two day no questions asked but still a delay. Second, the U-Shape brackets are way too tight. Watched a video on YouTube and the guy warned us on this. There is no need for it to be this tight. Need to flex out the U brackets to squeeze in the washers. It’s almost impossible. Lastly the boxing of the bar is inadequate, it needs to be secured in better.
Ordering was simple with the help of Andy. Item was delivered a day early.
We purchased the Hellwig front sway bar. Have only driven the unit back to storage (about 4 miles) so haven't been able to experience the end product. Can't wait to hit the road and not sway into another lane from an 18 wheeler going by us
The instructions say to use the original mounting nuts on the new bracket. However, the holes on the bracket are too large requiring the use of washers to avoid the nuts from being partially in the holes. For the amount paid, you would think it would come with all of the appropriate mounting hardware. Not happy being delayed until a run to the hardware store for install.
I hope the ride is at least improved.
Thank you Etrailer and especially Gabby for answering a few technical and part number questions.The Etrailer YouTube tutorials were very beneficial in helping complete this DIY project, no problem! The upgrades with the Hellwig front and rear sway bars improved the handling and reduced the rock-n-roll sway across rough roads and in the corners as well as large trucks and busses passing by. The upgrades also included a Safe-T-Plus steering stabilizer. This Thor Freedom Elite 25’ E350 chassis now drives more like a big pickup truck instead of a large RV. Thank you Etrailer, Hellwig and Safe-T-Plus. We’re ready to hit the road for long trips with confidence!!
Perfect fit and felt a huge difference on the first drive. Install was straight forward with no issues. Highly recommend for all F150 owners!
I recently installed the Hellwig Front Anti-Sway Bar (Part #HE43FR) and Rear Anti-Sway Bar (Part #HE37FR) on my 2020 Ford F-150 SuperCrew with a 5.0L V8 engine. This was done along with other items for purpose of enhancing the stability while towing a 28-foot travel trailer with a dry weight of 6,300 lbs. After doing so, I've observed slight improvement in handling but mostly the benefits have been reduced body roll. I am happy with this because makes me feel that I have more secure handling when towing the adventure wagon; our Travel Trailer.
The construction of these sway bars is great, especially the front bar; it is massive, really thick. I expect their long term durability will be very good. I do like the rear bar's adjustability that allows for “fine-tuning”. I put it on the mid adjustment right now but will probably move it back to the most solid setting and let it be.
While the installation process was not extremely simple, anyone with hand tools and basic mechanical skills can install this without any issue. Patience helps too if you are not an experienced mechanic. But if you are experienced, this should be a very easy for you. They significantly improve stability and they also result in a firmer ride when the truck is unloaded but not an uncomfortable one.
What it boils down to is, these sway bars have positively affected sway and improved overall control during towing, addressing previous concerns about trailer movement, sway, etc. I think they are particularly beneficial for those who frequently tow heavy loads or trailers, not just travel trailers but utility and equipment haulers. The enhanced stability and control they provide make them worth the money for serious outdoor enthusiasts towing their toys.
Overall, the Hellwig Front and Rear Anti-Sway Bars have met my expectations, delivering improved towing performance and vehicle stability. While the installation process and firmer unloaded ride are considerations, the benefits for towing applications are significant."
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