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Ok well the leaves have been in for 4 months now

The height - or lack of - is really starting to piss me off, big sh*tty speed humps without slowing to a painful crawl and exhaust scrapes

Got a quote from Allsprings in Moorebank to reset the leaves to whatever height 

 

He was also gong on about some 'conversion' he reckons he does for pac performance's leaf sprung cars to get rid of tramp

No caltracs/tramp rods etc. 

The line was crackly as crap so I couldn't make out half of what he was saying, did some searching but nothing came up

(except allsprings has a sh*t name for coils lol)

The only thing I thought I picked up was that he put an extra leaf in which has been done before with varying levels of success, is by no means a cure-all for tramp

 

Will give another call later today.

 

@Ford Freak have you measured your front HTG yet?? :P

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8 minutes ago, camo86T said:

The only thing I thought I picked up was that he put an extra leaf in which has been done before with varying levels of success, is by no means a cure-all for tramp

 

Will give another call later today.

 

@Ford Freak have you measured your front HTG yet?? :P  

Was he talking about reverse wrap front spring eyes?

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Could well have been that for all I could hear.

Sounds like an illegal UFC move

I take it that it's basically also reversing front eye (as well as the kings reverse rear eye) or is there more to it?

 

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Like so? http://www.cjponyparts.com/total-control-products-leaf-spring-reverse-eye-1-1-2in-lowering-4-1-2-leaf-pair-1965-1973/p/TCPLSMR45/

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Sent off the (year old,never fitted) SSL coils on Thursday, waiting for box to return with SL's inside

No re-stocking fee or anything cos a mate of a mate :) 

 

Had another talk to Allsprings about the leaves and as suggested above it's the front re-wrapped to reverse eye as will, which obviously will give more camber-->strength for the same height.

Will also look at possibility of replacing the main leaf with a thicker one

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Lol fair question

 

All encouragement/abuse welcomed, believe me.

 

Key is to try fit it in just after I finish something on the house so the wife can't complain

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Got ute back from cms this arvo, had it serviced and the 98 tune tweaked up to 18psi.

Made a tad over 400 which I'm pretty happy with :)

Been trying to load the dyno sheet for last 10 min, internet is sh*thouse atm.

Will try again tomorrow.

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