Mike...
Good point about the sway bar might get snagged. That was my first thought when I saw it for the very first time too. But then I thought about maybe the engineers left it down there for a reason, although they could have designed around the problem altogather. There are quite a few lines, wires, cables and a expensive air compressor & valving set-up above the sway bar. With the sway bar down like it is maybe someone will stop when the hear it draging on the rocks instead of continuing on and getting some more expensive parts snagged that are above it. Sometimes things are a trade-off when it comes to design and ease of production & costs usually win out.
Here are a few more pics of the rear and some of the more of the air compressor assy.& ride height sensors. It could be easy to damage in some cases, one of the reasons I decided to go with rear coil suspension, besides the coils were $1175 less cost and ride great.
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