Tried/Considered Hellwig Bars

[ORVietVet]

I have Hellwig at the front and rear of my 2005 Tahoe Z71 and I can tell you one thing, it made all the difference I expected and then some.

Wondering who here has considered Hellwig for front or rear or both ends and what truck they were installed on?

 

[4silverado]

I seem to recall on one of the other forums where someone used the rear sway bar from a Tahoe /Suburban and adapted it to the truck. I’d thought about doing it to mine but not much in the way of you pull scrap yards around here.

 

[ORVietVet]

Yea, the Tahoe/Suburban rear coil spring suspension would definitely need some adapting for rear sway bar. A good welder could likely do it without too much trouble.

 

[someotherguy]

I have Hellwig at the front and rear of my 2005 Tahoe Z71 and I can tell you one thing, it made all the difference I expected and then some.

Wondering who here has considered Hellwig for front or rear or both ends and what truck they were installed on?

Years ago I used a Hellwig rear bar on a 1994 C2500LD and it seemed to help out a lot. This was the lowered black extended cab shortbed you've probably seen in other posts. It was dropped, front suspension fully rebuilt with poly bushings, then I added the rear bar. All that combined with the low profile tires, the truck handled a whole lot better than you should be able to expect a truck to handle.

What I liked about the Hellwig kit for that application is that it was strictly bolt-on, and they included two sets of end links for stock vs. lowered trucks.

A previous GMT400 I'd done the AddCo bar and it required drilling 4 holes in the frame for the bar bushing brackets, and the end links were sized for stock height so if you were lowered, they sat at a bad angle until you replace the bolts with appropriate lengths and cut the sleeves down.

Richard

 

[ORVietVet]

Years ago I used a Hellwig rear bar on a 1994 C2500LD and it seemed to help out a lot. This was the lowered black extended cab shortbed you've probably seen in other posts. It was dropped, front suspension fully rebuilt with poly bushings, then I added the rear bar. All that combined with the low profile tires, the truck handled a whole lot better than you should be able to expect a truck to handle.

What I liked about the Hellwig kit for that application is that it was strictly bolt-on, and they included two sets of end links for stock vs. lowered trucks.

A previous GMT400 I'd done the AddCo bar and it required drilling 4 holes in the frame for the bar bushing brackets, and the end links were sized for stock height so if you were lowered, they sat at a bad angle until you replace the bolts with appropriate lengths and cut the sleeves down.

Richard

Yea, if I buy a "kit" I want a complete kit that allows for all choices and it should say whether it will or not. With my front and rear bars, I out corner lots of vehicles on a winding road between my home and my shop owner friend's shop.

 

[bigdogYJ]

I installed my first hellwig big wig sway bars front and rear on my dually when I got the truck camper. That thing handled like it was on rails. Unbelievable how stable something that big could be. That proved to me that hellwig was no joke. Next rig was 2014 Jeep JK. Hellwig bars front and rear. Also impressive handling for a jeep.
I currently have a hellwig on the front of my Yukon XL 2500 and the wife’s 2004 Yukon. Love them both. Just recently put a hellwig on the front of the 2000 Z71 I’m rebuilding. It’s become a thing I do by default on my vehicles.

 

[ORVietVet]

There are a couple of manufacturers that make "hollow" bars, to save weight. You will never convince me they work as well as the Hellwig bars or that the weight savings is a plus.