g'day all, im looking at doing a buggy leaf setup on the back of my hilux and was wandering if anyone else is running this setup? and how well it works. i thinking of running the type that uses a normal full leaf and shackle but with a short arm mounted to the shackle and then mounted to the chassis like a few of the comp cars run.
some pics of ur setups would be great,
Cheers DAN
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is anyone running a 3/4 buggy leaf rear suspension setup?
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yeah
I have a mate who just u bolted a main leaf to his chassi upside down and then to his shackel, about 50mm forward of the origional mount, makes a comfy ride, more travel but he put a rod end or ball joint, where his front spring bush is so that the leaf pack could twist around the bolt, that gave it heaps more flex
i run 3/4 buggy leaf on the back of my patrol.
i used a pair of top leafs from some spare front spring packs i had laying around.
i cut mine 350mm long and drilled a centre hole in them and bolted a locator pin to it and u bolted it to the chassis and bolted the shackle to the leaf end at an angle that suited.
one thing to be weary of is that when you get up travel the shackles tend to invert as the top leaf pulls down away from the chassis and ends up locking it to the main leave pack. you need to weld a coupla little bump stops to the inside of the shackle to stop this.
the length of your top leaf is up to you... the longer it is the more in unloads and is more unstable offroad and also gives more axle wrap... but at the same time it gets more flex.
you need to decide how long you want it.
you will also need to run a trackbar as axle wrap increases by a huge amount with you run 3/4 elliptic.
screwy
i used a pair of top leafs from some spare front spring packs i had laying around.
i cut mine 350mm long and drilled a centre hole in them and bolted a locator pin to it and u bolted it to the chassis and bolted the shackle to the leaf end at an angle that suited.
one thing to be weary of is that when you get up travel the shackles tend to invert as the top leaf pulls down away from the chassis and ends up locking it to the main leave pack. you need to weld a coupla little bump stops to the inside of the shackle to stop this.
the length of your top leaf is up to you... the longer it is the more in unloads and is more unstable offroad and also gives more axle wrap... but at the same time it gets more flex.
you need to decide how long you want it.
you will also need to run a trackbar as axle wrap increases by a huge amount with you run 3/4 elliptic.
screwy
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Hey Dan
I did this to the rear of that blue lux i had. Worked awesome! You will have to use a Ladder bar or something! I got video footage of it on tape ill lend it to ya if ya want to see how it goes...
Justin
I did this to the rear of that blue lux i had. Worked awesome! You will have to use a Ladder bar or something! I got video footage of it on tape ill lend it to ya if ya want to see how it goes...
Justin
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