Tacoma Spring refurbishing

why stop at 2" ? Most my spring builds are for the 3" + crowd...

But i can build to pretty much whatever lift you want, & no need for Guinea pigs now, me & a few others have been beating the hell out of these rebuilts for over a year now....

Hi Reagan...... not much, getting ready to send a spring kit back east to another member

 

kool kool a whole new spring pack?

 

I only lifted the front ~2.5" so I don't need/want 3" of rear lift

 

You've got the TSB, dump the overload . Add one Chevy spring per side & you'll get right at 2" of lift

 

Dam doug! those look like some desert racing style leafs bud!!!! Nice work, have you run em yet?? SICK
AND to anyone listening out there i built my springs up OMD style and they have recently had the living shit beat out of them and i feel almost nothing out of the rear .....nothing! they are absolutely awesome! Doug aint kidding around, if he says he built a pack for 80+ hes for real dude.

 

Hey thanks Matt !! How ya doin' buddy ??

I'm really starting to like this spring config.......

 

Pretty nice,tight arc for junkyard shit !!!!

 

You asked if I have run them yet, well no but as you can see....

 

Sweet man. im doing good , feelin alot better and started therapy! With that config you should be able to get some pretty serious action out of em! So i guess even though the tranny is down it doesnt really stop you from wrenchin things nuh?
What leafs are in that pack?

 

oh yeah and where the heck has your driveline gone...???

 

dont know whats up with the quotes.....but the hancooks are 32 11.5! mts. He has a set but 2 are any good. so i might take the 2 good one off him and get 2 new ones. They look a good tire and I have heard good things about em. lasting long and performin well in all types of junk.

 

Haha alrite i was just wondering, and ya ibe herd they are great also

 

Hey Doug, picked up these leaf packs last weekend. They're off a 1988 Chevy S-10 w/ a 1500 lb. towing pkg.. I stayed late at work yesterday to cut them down and painted them when I got home. I found my parts from Toytec on my doorstep. Won't be long now.

 

very nice frank! Those are gonna pop you up nicely! Lets see some pics when your done bud!

 

Ya know its funny, those lil s-10 springs dont look any thicker but i used to have one and it was extremely different than my taco rear end. Loading capacity and especially ride. they were very truck like as in empty bed bounced all over but a bit of weight and viola!. I'm curious as to why though. i guess it could be that the s-10 was design so that they were barely compressed or barely " de-arced" in normal static ride height and the taco was designed to sit almost flat wich (as we all know) means saggy no load capacity and junk ride very quickly. Guess if it is not the design its just that they were made better "metalergy" for a truck that might wanna throw something in the back.
Either way, they seem like a great leaf to use as donors for lift or capacity to our tacomas. I think the way i went, which was even thicker by 2-3 mil, also chevy(who knows maybe the mfg chevy uses bulids leafs properly), worked very well for my wanting to be able to load the crap out of it without riding bumpstops, wheel and flex and of course ride nicely over bumps and wash.. Anyhow I think the s-10,dodge dakota, F-150, are some of the best choices i found available in the jy in my leaf re-build.! Oh and of course the pre 95 toy pu but finding one of those that has anything left on it is near impossible!.
For you frank, I think they will prove a great find With all that camp gear ya got in the bed! Should hold ya up more than the aal and handle those l;oads better too.!