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Hilux rear coils

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:39 am
by muddylux
A while ago I seen a tradie on site that fitted mazda coils to the rear with no modifcation at all. It lifted his standard susspension 1in and enabled him to carry a heavier load. There were no mods at all and the coils were located by the bump stop and upper bump stop plate as the coils were wound to a small diameter at each end.
Now I'm thinking I may do a similar mod but take some leaves out and use the coil to do the job of the removed leaves.
What would be a minimum amount of leaves to run so axel wrap was not introduced. I do not wish to fit a trac bar.

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:46 am
by MissDrew
The size, thickness, stiffness etc of the leafs you would have to run to not have axle wrap without a trac bar sort of defetes the purpose. :roll:

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:51 pm
by Sic Lux
Had some sort of coils an the rear of mine when i bought it (trac bar and rear end setup close to what it is now) they were just between the bumpstop and where the bumpstop would contact the chassis would be ok if they were retaind for road driving off road they would limit the drop to some extent as they just fell out at not even full drop. Seen somewhere on here about a bloke selling a "Add a coil setup" try a search for that.
The only decent way to do it would be a trac bar and retain them