One more time... OME 2.5

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Mountain- I've decided to go 850/860 (heavy front, medium rear) because I will have an ARB bar but no heavy rear bumper (just a Kaymar tire carrier attached to factory rear bumper), and this spring combo should negate the need for trim packers (spacers) to level the front end with the ARB on it. You are right the spring rates are the same for the medium and heavy so I would assume ride would not be much different if combined with the same shocks.
 
The thing about Med vs Heavies, is it is easy to change. $16 Spring Compressors at Harbor Freight and you can change all 4 med springs for heavies fairley easy and you know someone here will buy them.

Or you could buy the heavies and change them down.

I went medium because Christo advised me not to go heavey on a stock truck.
 
I talked to Christo this afternoon. He basically told me that if I was to wait a long period of time before getting the bumper, the heavies up front would throw off the caster and evetually eat up my tires. Because this rig is a daily driver as well, I am opting to run the mediums until I can afford a bumper. I'm really leaning toward the prerunner idea, as it's light and sorta "one off". GREAT pictures by the way, as a picture really does say a thouhsand words. The "stink bug" effect running the mediums is almost unnoticable.
 
XXXR- "the bumper" you spoke about with Christo = ARB with or without winch?
 
Romer said:
The thing about Med vs Heavies, is it is easy to change. $16 Spring Compressors at Harbor Freight and you can change all 4 med springs for heavies fairley easy and you know someone here will buy them.

Or you could buy the heavies and change them down.
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I thought putting the springs (heavy) on was a piece of cake without a spring compressor.

Riley said:
Learn to love stink bug..... I like it as it's level when loaded.
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Yes.

Hayes
 
i am running medium load front and rear but i got superlift springs instead of ome and my front right sits about a half inch lower than everywhere else? what could this be? and where do you buy the 10mm coil spacers because i just had a warn winch and warn bumper off of a chevy tahoe welded to my frame and it sits down a little now.
 
Hayes said:
I thought putting the springs (heavy) on was a piece of cake without a spring compressor.

Hayes
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I have installed 3 sets of Js without spring compressors.
 
alaskacruiser said:
XXXR- "the bumper" you spoke about with Christo = ARB with or without winch?
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I asked about a non-winch... those ARBs are HEAVY... He just meant that if I was to run with it for like a while (I think I said 6-8 months) it would be bad. I imagine a temporary fix would be okay. I drive this thing 70 miles 4 days a week, so I would be hurting some.
 
I didn't need a spring compressor. I went full droop without the shocks and the 851s went right on.
 
dammit, I had decided to go 863s in the rear. Now you guys have me reconsider and contemplate meds in the rear ...

I'm such a wimp! :)
 
I didn't know that no caster correction would eat up the tires... why is that?
 
Romer said:
So how do you get the spring off/on without compressing it?
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It's best done with a helper to push down the hub, by standing on it, then pull the spring out. If you disconnect one end of the shock first there is plenty of flex to get them out without a compressor.
 
Thanks Tools, Now there are two ways. You must have had to jack it up pretty high to get the space to pull out the spring.
 
Slee sent detailed instructions with my OME stuff. Pretty much what Tools said. Some brake line brackets were disconnected to be safe.

Like I said, two of us did the springs and shocks with no special tools. The rear heavies were a little tighter fit to squeeze in, but a little elbow grease did the trick.

Hayes
 
Tools R Us said:
It's best done with a helper to push down the hub, by standing on it, then pull the spring out. If you disconnect one end of the shock first there is plenty of flex to get them out without a compressor.
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You'd be amazed what you can do with a 4' breaker bar to pop a spring in or out of place. Spring compressors take forever and are absolutely lethal if you have one let go on you.

Nay
 
"By lifting the truck, the front axle moves away from the frame. Due to the design of the front control arms, the axle will tilt forward and reduce the caster angle. Stock caster for a 80 Series Land Cruiser is 2-4 degrees positive. It is our experience that you loose approximately 1 degree for every inch that you lift the truck. This is a rule of thumb based on caster measurements taken with different setups. The caster bushings supplied by OME corrects about for 2 degrees. These bushings should be used with any 2.5" lift." Slee Offroad
 
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