rear springs, and helper spring ?

[toy4xfun]

as many of you remember i had band-aided my rear rough country springs a few years ago, well went to the cove for BBRC's fall crawl this past weekend, and the springs bent right in front of the pro comp add a leaf i put in, so i finally ordered new 4" pro comp rear springs. and before i do any heavy hauling i am going to get some kind of heavy duty helper springs. so any one use helper springs that can be removed rather easily?

 

[WckedMidas]

could always try th airbags,. then u can inflate deflate pressure as needed depending on what your hualing. and if your not cheap like me you could get the in cab compressor with switchs

 

[cody c]

umm. 63" chevs might help. As far as removable helper springs, Id say look at some of the airbag setups, or get a fullsize.

 

[toy4xfun]

new springs arrived today, ordered new spring pins from CDan. so i will post up some pics when i start. as for helpers i might just have to get a pic up for hauling the heavy crap.

 

[KY854RUN]

I have Northwest Off Road rear springs with the over load leaf on the bottom. I feel that it limits the rear flex and they snag debris when going through mud and water. I have never gotten hung up on them, but I think that sooner or later I will.

I would go without the over load leaf and find something else for heavy hauling.

 

[toy4xfun]

well the wife got me the marlin u bolt flip kit and the shock mount kit for my birthday, so now i have to wait till all that comes in before i install the new springs, but i don't mind.

 

[GRM]

Another option is to run Timbrens (http://www.timbren.com/) or Micro-Cellular Polyurethane Aux springs. I set them up on my mini-truck, and not only does it do a much better job at taking up the bumps, but they help handle the additional weight when I load up the truck.

Sorry for the picture of them on the front of my truck, but its the only good picture I have. They do the same job in the rear.


BTW: the picture is at full droop. They are .5" from hitting the frame at ride height.

 

[toy4xfun]

ok guys i finally got around to installing my new rear springs.

i started the morning with this...

and while i was removing the old springs this showed up...

so here are just some pics of the drivers side before and after.

sorry do not have picks of the passenger side, i found that even though the last time i did this the front of the diff fell and well i had to remove the drive shaft, so i tried one side at a time well it is faster to remove the drive shaft and drop the rear . and then my welding rod was started sticking on the passenger side while welding the shock mounts, and when i jerked it off it contacted the brake line so i had to make a new one, so it was dark by the time i finished. so tomorrow i am taking it on a test run might get some pics then.

 

[jynx]

What springs did you end up with? I need to do this on my pickup but I am trying to wait until I get around to doing an SAS so I can match the rear to the front.

 

[toy4xfun]

i ended up getting procomp springs.

yea it is best to wait if you are doing sas, but if you need something now and cheap you could do an add-a-leaf. i did this about 2 years ago, because i was out of work and the passenger spring collapsed real bad.

 

[toy4xfun]

LOL, so with all the brake line b.s. i forgot to torque the u bolts, i did put lock tight on the bolts and tightened them with a ratchet but i did not torque them to 90 ftlbs so i went out yesterday on a unmaintained county road, and well started hearing something like my tires rubbing on the body, well the overload spring kicked side ways and was rubbing my tire. any how i had to stop so often ant bang the spring back in alignment, and torqued the u-bolts today.