EVO NoLimits Manual Swaybar Disconnect.. $90 (google it)

AEV Procal to kill the light..

 

The EVO manual is very popular - I've seen homemade ones also.

Since I'm an old guy and don't want to crawl under the jeep to disconnect - I just had the new JKS manual rubicon disconnect cable thing installed. Just pull the handle and twist left. To lock just move the handle clockwise a bit and it pops in. The cable pull is 11oclock above drivers front wheel.

The only downside it's much more expensive than the other two options

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I have the exact same problem as the original poster 'JeffROCC'. My 09 Unlimited Rubi w/ 70,000 miles on it began flashing the swaybar light at me a couple of months ago and no matter what I did to the button, it wouldn't stop. Sometimes the flashing light would stop temporarily but would always return. Then my battery started dying and my dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree with my gauges going ape shit. Eventually one morning my keyless entry stopped working and when I went to unlock the door manually witrh my key, it triggered the alarm and yet the ignition key wouldn't start the Jeep. The alarm just kept going off. I disconnected the horn to silence the alarm and tried fruitlessly to start the Jeep with the key. Eventually the Jeep went into a total lock down or some crap and I had to have it towed to a dealer. They quoted me a very similar price to repair. $1860 for the actuator and $140 for wiring harness. I'm pretty damn upset and disappointed.

 

This is either happening or going to happen to any rubicon owner who lives anywhere that there is precipitation. It's absolutely unbelievable and Chrysler won't even recognize its a problem. I am now past warranty on my jk unlimited and it is absolutely falling to pieces. These are not the jeeps I have been driving for 30 years. You could keep my cj 7 alive on toothpicks and superglue. I am selling my JK and going back to at least a TJ. I'm just fed up with the electronics on the JK. It's insane.

 

This is either happening or going to happen to any rubicon owner who lives anywhere that there is precipitation. It's absolutely unbelievable and Chrysler won't even recognize its a problem. I am now past warranty on my jk unlimited and it is absolutely falling to pieces. These are not the jeeps I have bee n driving for 30 years. You could keep my cj 7 alive on toothpicks and superglue. I am selling my JK and going back to at least a TJ. I'm just fed up with the electronics on the JK. It's insane.

 

if you have a failed one, can you take it apart, and see what's getting wet?

maybe we can seal it up better?

 

On the front of the disconnect module there is a box, with a wiring harness plugged in. Moisture gets in through the wiring harness directly on to a circuit board, wreaking havoc, burning out a myriad of resistors and capacitors. It's almost like it was designed to fail! It points directly into the road grime and debris that a jeep would normally be subjected to. I tried to seal it after the first failure (which completely disabled the jeep on the side of a highway by the way!!! ) but once it has been breached by moisture it's a time bomb.

 

Never had a problem with mine, but I had skid that went from my front bumper down and under it, so any grim would of had to come from behind. That being said. I went through tons of puddles, streams, and rivers with no problems.

 

I had a problem with my 2010 with 34000 on it. I got a "sway bar disconnect failure to communicate code"..I thought it failed all together. The dealer found a bad wire between the two wiring harness plugs. They fixed the wire and everything works great.

Like other people have said horrible electrical

 

The real problem here is not so much that the swaybar disconnect is an engineering screwup at its finest, it is that if and when it does fail, at 6000 or 600000, it shuts down the entire electrical system. An inconvenience in a mall parking lot or 1 series highway, a catastrophy if you are 5 miles back in the bush at 2 in the morning. This is not what jeeps are meant to be, and really weren't in the 20 plus years I have been driving a CJ, YJ, EVEN TJ! The electrical system has become so integral to even the most basic operations that any small glitch has the real potential for trouble