How many of y'all have taken out leaves to soften your suspension? How many did you pull and did it help? I am needing to soften mine and hope to get my truck to set a little lower but don't want to get into axle wrap problems.
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How many of y'all have taken out leaves to soften your suspension? How many did you pull and did it help? I am needing to soften mine and hope to get my truck to set a little lower but don't want to get into axle wrap problems.
2 front, 3 rear.
Any problems with wrapping or excessive leaning in corners?
In the past, people have reported that removing more than 2 leafs has caused spring wrap...this is with a stock to a little modified 350...nothing "built". With a 300-6, at least one member has reported removing 3 and not having spring wrap.
On my 725, I only cut out one spring. I was just posting what I heard others have done.
Thanks for the info.
if you want a soft ride get a civy truck.....
That was awesome Bob....
Now to something that contributes to this thread:
When I seperated my spring packs and coated them wih Slip Plate I also removed 1 leaf from each pack. I felt an improved ride on the road and it won't lean at all around corners. Doing very untechnical tests of driving up some big stumps on my property before and after removing a leaf, I have further suspension drop but I still hit the bump stops on the high side.
I said there was an "improvement" in the ride over stock, but it is still rougher than heck on bumps and gravel roads. I'm going to run my rig for a while, but I'm thinking about pulling 1 more leaf per pack one of these days to see what happens.
Not to jack the thread, but if you do pull another leaf, post up and let us know how the slip plate paint looks.
Will do, I am very interested to see how the stuff wears too.
If you really want to get a smoother ride, you need to replace the springs with a spring pack that has more, thinner leaves. The thickness of the stock spring leaves is the limiting factor in flex and smoothness of ride.
I did exactly that recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai
Used the top, longest two leaves of the original spring pack, ditched the rest. Acquired a pair of packs from the front of an slightly burnt 88 Wagoneer, removed the top leaf (the one with the eyes) and blended the remaining springs with my two stock leaves.
Ride is an awesome improvement, ride height may have dropped 1/2". Lots of body sway and a spooky amount of flex for a M715. That's what I was looking for.
With only on weekend on the trails I hate to brag it up too much...so far not enough axle wrap to present any sort of issue, and I was hammering the truck to try and find potential problems with the new set up. Keep in mind my truck is shortened, the shorter rear drive shaft should only aggravate a problem if it existed.
Venture at your own risk, I have no engineering degrees.
I needed to pull my leaf packs apart on my 715 and decided to experiment on the front leafs. I pulled 2 leafs out of the front and noticed the vehicle ride height dropped about 1/2 inch. Granted my truck is a project and does not run or drive so all my testing is with a floor jack. The spring pack moves much more than before and gave me some decent shackle angle BUT im not sure with 38's that I have 1/2 inch to give so I think I am tossing 1 leaf back in.