How hard is it to do a spring over on a cd101 (1 Viewer)

[calsum2]

How hard is it to do a spring over on a 101

 

[Mark W]

A 10 year old could do it. Rock simple


Mark...

 

[lucky]

About 1 hour

 

[brownbear]

Whats involved? Unbolt the u bolts and pull the axle out and rebolt in on underneath?

I looked at it and thought it would be easy. But didn't know if it was as simple as it looked.

Good to know.

 

[FeilEOD]

I belong to the Yahoo M101CDN2 group and there are a couple of folks that have done write ups on their SOA, you may want to try there. I don't know how much lift you want ,but the leaf spring mounting points are bolted to the frame. You could insert spacers there for a small amount of lift. You could also use lift shackles. None of these are free like a SOA would be but they are alternatives.

 

[lucky]

Youhave to rotate the drums 180 degrees for the brakes to work

Ryan

 

[kai38]

It took me by myself with just hand tools and a grinder, two afternoons to do the S/O on my M416.
I'm guessing it can't be too much different for the 101.
Here are pictures of the S/O work
http://www.pbase.com/kai38/spring_over_m416_trailer

http://www.pbase.com/kai38/spring_over_part_2

I gained about 6in in height. I still havent figured out how to measure for the new shocks though.
Kirk
New Mexico, USA!