Tacoma Spring refurbishing

That looks great and makes me feel good about my chevy leafs. I am planning on getting an RTT eventually.

This is where I am riding now (No more basket though). I have had the rebuilt leafs installed for 6 months now and haven't had any issues with them at all.

 

Much better arch than before.

 

So looks like you all are doing 3 leafs and longer main bolt and done? Correct?

 

Looks like he has more leafs. I am not sure which ones but it looks like the original top two with 4 others.

 

Why is everyone elses springs in the rear sitting low and mine at up like that? Re design?

 

1st gen shackle vs 2nd gen shackles.

 

Thanks. I just looked through about 30 pages of the pics in this thread and no dice. So thanks for clearing that up. So I am going to go to the JY this morning and pull both packs from something and then come home and cut one leaf down at a time and add it until I am back to where I need to be. Seems the easiest route to go since I'm not sure how high I need to go to get back to stock

 

7 leafs total. Top 3 are the factory Toyotas. Next down is out of a 90ish Ford 1 ton overload leaf pack, next 2nd shortest out of my 67 Mustang original pack, then another shorter leaf out of the ford truck, then the shortest leaf out of the mustang. Does that make sense?

I had to do some trimming on one side of the leafs I used from the ford truck since the back of the leafs on my truck are longer than the front. Just eyeballed a length that looked good and cut.

 

Talk about a bastard pack. Glad it's working for you.

 

Only thing I have in it is my time. Got all the leafs for free so just working with what I got. I need to load my 4 wheeler in the bed and see how it handles a load one day. If it's not up to par I got access to a Ranger I might pull the overload leaf out of.

Also noticed when doing my swap that I could really use some even longer rear shocks. Currently I have some cheap vatozone shocks on now so thinking I might upgrade to some 5150s or something. We'll see, budget is pretty slim at the moment so it'll be some time before I can get to that.

 

Quick help. I'm at the junk yard and they have a ton of springs but the 10 I've tried they aren't coming out at all. Then I came across a 2000 ford ranger the leafs have great arch and are just laying in the bed will these work

 

I found a 78 ford flat bed with about 10 leafs per side buy they aren't budging. Tried center pin and both ends nothing is letting go.

Also found a 95 explorer with 5 leafs per side with great arch.

 

I'd say as long as they're 2 3/8" wide they're worth a try. Worst case you end up with a bastard pack like me.

 

Gashed my hand pretty good but got a set. 33.00 for both sides plus tax. And a 2 dollar entry fee. Picked them up off an 1991 f150 3/4 ton utility

 

springs I picked up today

 

Make sure to cut the springs so that the centering pin is actually centered. Those pins look to be off center.

 

They are and I'm going to cut from the longer end so they are centered

 

Banged these out in about an hour..

Going to weld up some new spring clamps tomorrow.

Almost used my plasma to do the diamond notching; then I remembered Spring Steel is tempered. Duh.

 

Nice jake. I didn't know you were building some. What are those out of? I take it you finally got a plasma cutter lol

I haven't even thought about building a set since I installed mine but I just ran into a really nice set with decent curve that I might pick up for a later project.

 

Yup.. I caved. Definitely will cut CMCs in half; at least (no pun intended)..

I ended up using a set of springs out of a '93 Chevy 2500 4x4. There's a pretty good junkyard down in Mount Vernon that has great pricing, and is very tolerant of having me wander around out back until I find a set that looks like will work.

Still not 100% done - have to build some new spring clamps and add Teflon in between the leaves.