Question about Dakar Leaf Springs

I ordered a set of Dakar Leaf Springs for my 1999 Tacoma off of Ebay (PN: CS046RA and CS046RB).



One of the sets of springs arrived today, but it was not in a box. They just delivered the leaf pack with the shipping label taped directly to the springs.

As you might imagine, some of the plastic bits got a dinged up during shipping. One of them has fallen off completely. Should I be worried about this? Or will the springs work correctly without the plastic guide?

 

Mine came like that too brother man. I didn't worry about it tbh. The leaves might wiggle a little bit but the rest of the bracket should hold everything in place

 

most vendors ship it like that.

 

You can make your own out of some flat bar and bolts from home depot and $10.. or go without them and when the leafs come out of alignment (which they will) just smack them a few times with a hammer and they will get straight again

 

Most venders just sullifane wrap them and ship em... If they can't handle a little shipping action, you dont want them on your truck anyways bud. Leave some mid grade feedback for seller and bolt em up. I love mine!

 

Call ARB and tell them what happened. They'll throw a "OLD MAN EMU REMOTE SERVICE KIT (CLK6)" in the mail to you. Pretty common thing.

 

Thank you for all of your help, gentlemen! I sent ARB an email to their tech department. Hopefully they'll get back to me soon, I'm ready to install this lift!!!

Thanks again.

 

I had the same thing happen, But when I put them in, one of those brackets was popping, (or to be more precise, the leaves were popping in the bracket). I called OME and they said theyd ship me some new guides (free) to see if it fixed the problem.

 

Yessir, I contacted ARB tech, and they are shipping me a couple sets of "clip liner kits." I'm waiting on brake lines and poly bushings from Wheeler's anyway.

 

Did you have a popping noise as well?

 

Same thing here too
Clk6 kit fixed it back to new. My thread :
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/ome-dakar-spring-keepers-damage-rant.416812/

 

Popping noise? No, but I haven't installed the Dakar springs yet.

Or are you asking about the poly bushings? I have a long list of "while-I-have-it-all-torn-apart-I-might-as-well" stuff...including sway bar and steering rack bushings.

 

No, I put poly bushings in along with the Dakar leaf pack but got a popping noise from the left rear leaf at one of those bracket where the guides were damaged.