i have an 02 tj with a 2" budget boost. i saw an article in a magazine about a year or so ago about how to make your own hardware store swaybar quick disconnects. i never got the time to try it and have since lost the article, i have some free time this weekend to do some tinkering and want to know if anyone has tried to make their own. i think they just used a hardened pin with several hole pre drilled in it for cotter pins and put it in place of the lower bolt in the factory sway bar link with a washer on each side. i am planning on doing a 4.5" rubicon express lift eventualy and the kit comes with quick disconnects, so it seems silly to buy the same part twice. i'm not sure how they connected the upper part of the link.  

I really don't think it would be hard at all.  You could even take your existing sway bar link and add a hardened pin and just use that.  

remove the upright connections on either side, cut them in half,  measure the diameter of the piece, find another piece of medium duty tubing (preferably DOM) with an inside diameter matching the outside diameter of the original pieces... slide the two halves back together inside the tube and get them lined back up as they were originally, then tack weld them in place.  drill a hole on either side of where the original piece was cut... break/grind off your tack welds, grind everything smooth again, and insert pins through the holes... tada... homemade disconnects... at least that's what i would *** though i'm not completely sure about the sway bar on that particular model... but everything has got to fit tight or it won't be strong enough  

or you could just replace the lower bolt with something akin to a reciever hitch pin... and use your washers and the pin.