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reseting springs
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:17 pm
by macca81
anyone have a rough idea on the cost to get leaf springs reset profesionaly?
i flipped a shackle the other week, and then again 2day, and since then it has not stoped flipping, even going slowly(5kph) down the tarmac...
dont really wanna do it myself as its my daily and i cant afford to fark it up...
Re: reseting springs
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:27 pm
by bad_religion_au
macca81 wrote:anyone have a rough idea on the cost to get leaf springs reset profesionaly?
i flipped a shackle the other week, and then again 2day, and since then it has not stoped flipping, even going slowly(5kph) down the tarmac...
dont really wanna do it myself as its my daily and i cant afford to fark it up...
to get a hot reset, with new, longer main leaf (you need this to stop the shackles inverting) i was charged 75 a corner, but that was removing and installing them myself.
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:44 am
by macca81
i was thinking more along the lines of getting the arch reset back to normal... keeping the origional leafs
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:25 pm
by bad_religion_au
macca81 wrote:i was thinking more along the lines of getting the arch reset back to normal... keeping the origional leafs
if your inverting shackles, there's a fair chance your main leaf is shot/bent anyway, i got mine rearched (hot reset is the only way to go) 2 inches taller because i was there anyway.
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:02 pm
by Wish I had coils
1 lamp post , 1 winch and snatch block, 1 tape measure
Leaf spring round the lamp post and pull the spring round with the winch hold it fpr a few moments. do this several times to give spring a memory
The more you pull it round the bigger the arch in the spring start slow and work it up till your happy it is very easy to do i have done this heaps of times
alternative 2 buy new springs or some from the wreckers
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:34 am
by bazzle
Also fit anti inversion tabs/posts to your shackles as a matter of course.
Bazzle
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:40 am
by macca81
bazzle wrote:Also fit anti inversion tabs/posts to your shackles as a matter of course.
Bazzle
yeah thats gunna be my temp fix for now, a cpl of tabs untill i fix the rest up
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:38 pm
by bad_religion_au
bazzle wrote:Also fit anti inversion tabs/posts to your shackles as a matter of course.
Bazzle
that's a bandaid solution.
if they're bent/ stressed, do you really want to ignore the symptoms? after all it's all that's keeping your 4bie off the road at 100k's/hour
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:28 pm
by macca81
it is a bandaid solution, im getting new springs in the new year, till then, bandaids are good