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my zooks been soa for a few months now andnoticing the front right spring is realy started to sag. they r 2i lifted king springs.

this a comon problem on soa zooks and can springs be reset or is it worth replacing both fronts.

Yes but it is more common to SPOA zooks and SPOA springs need to be more resistant to sagging and spring wrap and often have more leaves added to the pack for longevity. This is contradictory to flex alot of the time and hence makes SPOA a less attractive venture.

hmm well said.

To add to the bad omen over SPOA when most people take leafs out to get more flex they more often then not take out the wrong leafs making the pack more prone to damage/sagging.
With a good anti wrap bar and or a shackle reversal spring problems will be a thing of the past.

then you'll just tear diff housing's and cross members etc when the anti wrap bar inevitably fails....

with large tyres and standard diff gears wrap will be a pain. with lower diff gears wrap is greatly reduced.

known 2 wrote:my zooks been soa for a few months now andnoticing the front right spring is realy started to sag. they r 2i lifted king springs.

this a comon problem on soa zooks and can springs be reset or is it worth replacing both fronts.

id swap the left to right and then later get them reset.

GRPABT1 wrote:then you'll just tear diff housing's and cross members etc when the anti wrap bar inevitably fails....

It depends on how the bar is designed/engineered.
Peter.

droopypete wrote:

GRPABT1 wrote:then you'll just tear diff housing's and cross members etc when the anti wrap bar inevitably fails....

It depends on how the bar is designed/engineered.
Peter.

.....and Mr Droopy knows his stuff here

droopypete wrote:

GRPABT1 wrote:then you'll just tear diff housing's and cross members etc when the anti wrap bar inevitably fails....

It depends on how the bar is designed/engineered.
Peter.

Gone through a few draft designs hey pete?

Only one, the old single link from the top of the housing to the x member with the shackle trick, very temporary fix till it ripped the housing open it appeared to work but it just plain didn't.
I wanted 2 points of contact on the diff to complete the triangle, but every design I had seen interfered with the natural path of the springs so therefore introduced binding of the suspension.
Peter.

droopypete wrote:Only one, the old single link from the top of the housing to the x member with the shackle trick, very temporary fix till it ripped the housing open it appeared to work but it just plain didn't.
I wanted 2 points of contact on the diff to complete the triangle, but every design I had seen interfered with the natural path of the springs so therefore introduced binding of the suspension.
Peter.

So you're saying that you've seemingly solved the problem of droopy springs using the droopy method?

It was the hand polishing by nubile swedish virgins that made it work ...








apparently.

Did we ever see the finshed results of droopys trac bar? I was keen to see how it ended up.
And to add to the original post, my front springs sagged pretty bad until I made correct length bump stops to stop the springs inverting too much.
The d/s is flat but the p/s has a slight arch still after a few years but that may be somthing to do with the p/s spring perch being lower than the d/s on toyota diffs?
Nik