Resurrecting this thread to ask the question again--
@tacosupreme, yes, right is right, but on a RHD truck not only is the right side of the vehicle the always-loaded side (with one human), but the right hand side has all the steering stuff (shaft, wheel, etc) as well as the pedals, master cylinder(s), etc, so the right side weighs significantly more than the left, even with no driver's butt in the seat. Same deal for a LHD rig, but it's the left side that's heavier. So the suspensions are designed with side-specific springs to account for this weight, and it's absolutely different depending on which hand drive the truck is.
On to my question: does anyone know for certain if Dobinsons labels their USA-bound springs differently than their domestic (Aus market) springs? Seems like OME's approach (If you're somewhere weird, where people drive on the right side of the road, please reverse your springs) might well apply to Dobinsons springs, but when I called the US distributor during my install, they insisted that right means right, period. Seems like the evidence above confirms what I was told-- that they've adjusted their labels for the LHD US market, but I'd appreciate some confirmation, which would allow me to stop running around my truck in parking lots with a tape measure.
In short, the FAQs on their site may be aimed at their own domestic market--do they run different labeling lines for export springs or are we the exception to "right is right"?
PS--this thread in 80 series tech seems to raise the same question:
Dobinson’s 2 Inch?
