GQ Leafy ute

[Brett S]

Am thinking bout buying the above mentiond girl for $4500 is a 1990 model 4.2 petrol manual, but i amseriously concerned about the leaves. Can these be easily changed to coils? Or will i have to chop off mounts off donor and weld on to chassis to get coil suspension on. I am of understanding that rear diff should be a stronger than standard and even be running 4.8's? I have a good MQ SWB that i rolled but cannot find a ute cab for it in WA except some tosser in the hills that said it was missing a quarter panel which turned out to be a quarter section of cab.
Is it worthwhile pursuing this leafy or spending twice as much on coil cab.

[GOT MUD]

i know a bloke who has put a coils in the rear of this model ute but he did have get all parts of a doner truck cut off and rewelded on the ute it does look good and works really BUT when i asked him when he was doing the front he to me that the leafy gq and coil gq chassis are different toward the front i pretty shaw (i can double check) he said that leaf is wider so putting a coil diff under it is almost impossible i might be wrong with which way around it was but when he told me i didnt believe him at first but he had done all the measurments up and found it to no go by the way hes not a backyarder and works in 4x4 industry so prety much knows what hes talking about

my 2cents worth

cheers

[Henry M]

I wouldn't think the exercise is viable. You would be better off purchasing a coil sprung vehicle, this would save plenty of cash and many head aches.

[GOT MUD]

I wouldn't think the exercise is viable. You would be better off purchasing a coil sprung vehicle, this would save plenty of cash and many head aches.

i would tend to agree with but the truck had allready had alot spent on it in other areas and when your old man owns a fully equiped shop and has welders on staff its alot easier and not that expensive

[Bartso]

as far as i know the chassis should be close to the same if not the same i have a GQ 89 model chassis with a 89 model GQ leaf sprung ute cab on it and the mounts line up the same

i spose if you found some coil spring diffs and worked off them it shouldn't be too bad

maybe search the wreakers for a coil spring chassis and put the cab on it?

personally i would just buy a coil cab

[stool]

Why not remove some leaves out of the spring pack and
add a track bar.

Than use the extra coin for lockers

[Beastmavster]

Considering the lack of travel out of GQ coily front ends wihtout extreme mods I would think leaf front coil rear would be the best of both worlds.