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orange150

orange150

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I know JC runs them, and he's the reason I know about them. I am going to run the F150 leafs I have laying around on my CJ, so to keep hight down I want to use them on all four springs. Problem is they all only seem to be for 2.5"w springs. Thinking I might have to make them, how long should they be so that the leaf has enough room to travel?
 
About this far..

Seriously.

That's like asking how long of a shackle do you need.. wait, it IS exactly like that. It depends on your sprung weight, unsprung weight, arch at ride height, etc, etc...
 
Soo basically just gotta make an educated guess at it? I can get some rough estimates for weights, but I don't know about arch at ride hight etc.
 
Measure eye to eye with it unloaded then measure eye to eye following the curve of the spring with it unloaded. That should give you a good starting point. Add a couple inches and you should be good
 
take some pics of that you're talking about.
 
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Is this what you have in mind?
 
Why would you want these?
 
Make'm a little extra long, better safe than sorry. I've seen them in circle track catalogs and on circle track cars, but those would be to short for an off road suspension.

Never messed with them but if it was me I'd mount them to the springs, then c clamp it to the frame about where it looked right, cycle the suspension and move where needed, then weld them on.
 
I would try different shackles or repacking the springs before I added some stuff like that. It seems to me like the spring movement would be pretty harsh.
 
98xjjeep said:
Measure eye to eye with it unloaded then measure eye to eye following the curve of the spring with it unloaded. That should give you a good starting point. Add a couple inches and you should be good
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yea what he said. if you do this give some feedback, i have been thinking of the same thing on my front springs.
 
I like them, would never go back! I originally bought some similar to the pic. They held up fine for the rear but they weren't stout enough for the front where I kept dropping off of stuff onto them. They were bending so I made some out of 1/4" and those have been fine despite repeated abuse :) If I had to do it again, I would make mine own, all out of 1/4", and just buy some Delrin blocks. I do think that the roller types would take too much abuse from rocks and dirt/mud, I'd stay with the blocks!
 
Here's a thread I started on POR almost 2 years ago on the subject

And here on NC4x4...

What's funny was all the haters/ney saying here :flipoff2:, but dozens of folks across the US running them without any issues in the POR thread.

Since I'm (hopefully) sticking to smaller projects this winter (previous winters were axle swaps & TBI conversion), still considering making a set for the front (even have then drawn up & at the lasercutters waiting to pull the trigger)...
 
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