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Fitting a Rear Anti-roll Bar

Postby Motorhome-Les » Mon Sep 01, 2025 5:11 pm

Hi all, I would like to fit a rear anti-roll bar to my LWB chassis, which is carrying a fixed motorhome. I already have a standard front ARB, together with heavier duty rear springs. Mine is a single wheel rear axle with leaf springs and standard specification new dampers.
The idea being to try to reduce some of the body roll when cornering.
Does anyone have the parts available for sale, to enable me to do this - or a list of the part numbers for the necessary parts.
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Re: Fitting a Rear Anti-roll Bar

Postby dumper » Mon Sep 01, 2025 8:47 pm

CATCAR.INFO - On-line auto parts catalogs Try looking on here or try breakers yards majority of transits don’t have them if you find the parts you may have to weld some parts to the body and the axle tube if the axle or chassis has no mounting brackets fitted.
A bus model may have them
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Re: Fitting a Rear Anti-roll Bar

Postby mk3_wrc » Wed Sep 03, 2025 1:29 pm

Have you got assister air bags? These make a massive difference.
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Re: Fitting a Rear Anti-roll Bar

Postby mrepson » Mon Sep 15, 2025 2:12 pm

where are you at.???,as i could have a rear anti roll bar off a mk5 transit, will try & take some photos of it,
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Re: Fitting a Rear Anti-roll Bar

Postby mrepson » Mon Sep 15, 2025 3:07 pm

where are you at.???,as i could have a rear anti roll bar off a mk5 transit, will try & take some photos of it,
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Re: Fitting a Rear Anti-roll Bar

Postby Motorhome-Les » Sat Nov 29, 2025 4:56 pm

Hi MREPSON - sorry for the delayed response, I've only just seen your reply.
I'm in South Yorkshire, near Doncaster.
If you have a Mk5 rear anti roll bar, and hopefully the mounting fitment, then I would definitely appreciate a picture of your assembly.
Would you be interested in selling it to me, if it appears to fit.
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Re: Fitting a Rear Anti-roll Bar

Postby bruce.edlin3001 » Sun Jan 04, 2026 1:54 am

A dual wheel diff would make more positive difference

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Re: Fitting a Rear Anti-roll Bar

Postby MinorMatt » Tue Jan 06, 2026 10:24 am

bruce.edlin3001 wrote:A dual wheel diff would make more positive difference

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I suspect that may be difficult as when I spoke too the gent he had 5 stud wheels - so there won't be space to accomodate the twin wheels.

He is looking for something that doesn't exist. No 5 stud variant had a rear ARB
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Re: Fitting a Rear Anti-roll Bar

Postby V184 » Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:39 pm

Take to someone who does race car fabrication ,they could probably make you one up
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