Broken leaf springs

myself and three other tacoma owners i talk with regularly have all broken leaf springs under regular driving conditions with mild wheeling.

 

thats odd

 

I know a guy here that had the same thing happen

 

Probably wouldn't be a factor other than a loose & weird ride, but if the centerpin is loose or possibly sheared it could def. be a factor, because its allowing the leafs to chaffe against each other & "slam" together because of the loose/sheared pin

x2 & some pics would speak volumes...

No offense but I'm having a problem accepting that as a viable statement, meaning I'm not saying your statement isn't true, just saying theres got to be something else going on to cause these breaks..

 

Lift it and get some dakars, problem solved their about $400 for a set.

Brett

 

Best I could do for the leaf it's pouring rain no pix of the road though not home tonight.

 

Are you kidding me ?? Look at all that shit on your under carriage/leafs included... Is that salt ??....

 

Ya crap those things are shot! How many miles ya got on them? Looks like you hit the bump stops quite a bit.

Thanks,

Brett

 

That's not salt it's the reflection in the water stuck in the mud from my camera flash

 

That's the drivers side and it has about 120k miles on it when the passenger side broke the second time it had about 5k miles on it

 

Ya right!? Got to remember we are from Cali

Thanks,

Brett

 

Like I said its pouring rain out also I just drove to the store so the underside is wet and a bit muddy

 

Ok, I'll give ya that one,Do I see a pretty large gap between the main & next spring down ? Or maybe a shadow??... & you say the pass. side broke for a 2nd time with 5K, 2 questions (& be honest here) Are you loading/hauling some heavy weight ?? & what is the local status on this "spring shop" you've been to..??

 

The most weight I've had in the bed of my truck this year is 200lbs of grain 4 50lb bags as for the spring shop they are the ones that do the springs for all the big trucks in the central vt area their name is on the mud flaps of 90% of the commercial trucks in town (dump trucks, big rigs the like)

Also yes that is a very large gap as you can see from the second pic I put up the front of the center leaf is about 5 inches in front of the front spring perch

 

What condition are the shocks in?