Tacoma Spring refurbishing

Well if you can find a commercial 1 ton Chevy S-10 you'd probably have it made, they have 8 or 9 nice, deeply ARC'd leafs per side, I will say that what you're trying to accomplish ,it's going to be difficult to get more than 5" at the most 6" of lift with springs alone without "over" springing it which will give you a pogo stick of a ride, you'll no doubt have to fall back on using 2" blocks, body lift notsure, or have some custom springs made with extreme ARC, which in itself can open another can of worms...

 

ERik, diggin' the videos buddy !!!!...

In the 2nd vid it looks like you were getting some great articulation, very even, very smooth...!!.

 

The trails weren't real difficult, a few spots were tricky, the vids dont really show angles all that well, here is another, some wash runs over to our next trail area.
Wife and I are going to start cutting and pasting them and make one video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2yqB7Ix6VM&feature=youtu.be



Spare goes pop!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJIl39OYpmg

 

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That'll be great Erik, this is how I load my suspension, wheels are 10" off ground....haha



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bomB_pem0J0#t=3s

 

shall do.

 

Current OMD spring users.....

So far there are these members running my springs:

1 myself 1st gen

2 Recklesstaco (matt)- 2nd gen

3 taco_me_elmo (micah) 1st gen

4 00taco00 (Reagan) 1st gen

5 CSJUMPER2003 (chris) 2nd gen 4x

6 Gregero (Greg) -2nd gen.

7 Donnod - 2nd gen (out of Las Vegas)

8 S.B. (Sean)-2nd gen. is getting ready to do this MOD also

9 Tmectaco79 (Adam) -2nd gen is pending

10 Fiddynut- 1st gen. he just did this

11 Enduromatic (matt) 1st gen (Oregon)

12 goufcustom (michael) 2nd gen

13 Res4cue (John) 2nd gen

14 Yotakid62 (Forrest) 1st gen (North Dakota)

15 PT_LAW (Steve) 1st gen. (Mass.)

16 01Tac0ma (Chad) 1st gen (SC)

17 TRd7 1st gen (SC)

18. Jdaniel1274 (1st gen.) (L.A.)

19. dad32509 2nd gen. (Dave)

20. Strohski (Chris) 2nd. gen. (Norcal) building his this week

21. Sportsterchop200 1st gen. (central Florida)

22. DWRECK (Derek) 2nd gen. Las Vegas

23. Leoffensive (Leo) 2nd gen.

24. LazyMF (Canada)

25. cayucostacoma 2nd gen. Chris

26. gdry06 (gary) 2nd. gen

27. Wareagle1 (Brad) 2nd gen

28. socaltaco65 (Erik) 2nd gen. 4x



This guy, this morning, haha Adam paid for his lift about a year ago & today is the day of install...

 

^^lol. also, put me on the list even though i bought the rebuilt leafs from another member. i need to cut down the leafs though, really rough ride

 

Current OMD spring users.....

So far there are these members running my springs:

1 myself 1st gen

2 Recklesstaco (matt)- 2nd gen

3 taco_me_elmo (micah) 1st gen

4 00taco00 (Reagan) 1st gen

5 CSJUMPER2003 (chris) 2nd gen 4x

6 Gregero (Greg) -2nd gen.

7 Donnod - 2nd gen (out of Las Vegas)

8 S.B. (Sean)-2nd gen. is getting ready to do this MOD also

9 Tmectaco79 (Adam) -2nd gen is pending

10 Fiddynut- 1st gen. he just did this

11 Enduromatic (matt) 1st gen (Oregon)

12 goufcustom (michael) 2nd gen

13 Res4cue (John) 2nd gen

14 Yotakid62 (Forrest) 1st gen (North Dakota)

15 PT_LAW (Steve) 1st gen. (Mass.)

16 01Tac0ma (Chad) 1st gen (SC)

17 TRd7 1st gen (SC)

18. Jdaniel1274 (1st gen.) (L.A.)

19. dad32509 2nd gen. (Dave)

20. Strohski (Chris) 2nd. gen. (Norcal) building his this week

21. Sportsterchop200 1st gen. (central Florida)

22. DWRECK (Derek) 2nd gen. Las Vegas

23. Leoffensive (Leo) 2nd gen.

24. LazyMF (Canada)

25. cayucostacoma 2nd gen. Chris

26. gdry06 (gary) 2nd. gen

27. Wareagle1 (Brad) 2nd gen

28. socaltaco65 (Erik) 2nd gen

29. White Toy Taco (Gian) 1st gen. Albuquerque, New Mexico

30. Tmectaco79 (Adam) 2nd gen.


Adam's already on list but just had his done...

Before, stock 2 leaf w/overload, no TSB...



After...





We measured before & he was 21.5" from top center of hub to bottom center of wheel well, after he was 23.75" for a total gain of 3" (we dumped the overload)


& He approves....

 

He's def. gonna need extended shocks...

 

Nice!

I need some OMD tlc I think...

 

Im going to be doing this mod as soon as i get some good leafs, I have 2" blocks in the rear right now with sagging springs and i wanna upgrade to some OMD springs

 

Thats right Erik .. you pic a day, PM me...

You won't regret it, 2 chevys per side yields 3" a lift generally..

I've been running this 6 leaf progressive & gotta say. these springs are horrible, they look nice but they ride like shit, I can't wait to dump these POS !! & go back to linear springs

 

Ooooh, oooh, let me guess - not enough support at the ends of each leaf, making a bouncier ride?

 

Doug I think I may have found my donors http://baltimore.craigslist.org/pts/3482023095.html

 

Jump on those, quick..

 

Going to pick them up tonight if everything works out

 

Nice !! Just remember not to be in a rush, look them over carefully, look for nice even ARC, nothing too radical & take a tape measure with you to measure width on donor springs (generally they're the same width but you never know when the manuf. is going to drop in a diff size, Ford does this once in awhile)

You want to try to maintain your donors to as close to OEM as possible as far as dimentions

 

ok will do, thanks for the heads up

 

You are half right , its a spongy ride on smooth surfaces (streets/roads/some dirt roads) but they're like that by design, soft suspension until you start hitting rougher terrain then is when they ramp up & get stiffer.. There in is the problem, in this pic. I can't even stuff this tire into the well..I've got like 2.5" of shock travel left & it won't go because the springs have hit a wall, meaning that almost all the flexation is gone because of the progressive design (thinner to thicker/thicker to thinner) The other leafpack (linear) performs waaaay better in all areas from these POS's that are on now...





& the droop isn't great either.....