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question about king springs

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:40 pm
by sleeping giant
hi everyone.

i just bought 2" raised king springs in heavy duty for my lwb gq.

i took out the old spring ( supposedly standard- it sat low) and put it next to the new one, and they are the same length. but the actual coils are thicker ( cause they are heavy duty i guess )

just wondering if anyone else has found this out before with kings or any other brand, and if when they were installed that they ended up sitting 2 " higher like they should.

thanks, brad

Re: question about king springs

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:49 pm
by Shadow
sleeping giant wrote:hi everyone.

i just bought 2" raised king springs in heavy duty for my lwb gq.

i took out the old spring ( supposedly standard- it sat low) and put it next to the new one, and they are the same length. but the actual coils are thicker ( cause they are heavy duty i guess )

just wondering if anyone else has found this out before with kings or any other brand, and if when they were installed that they ended up sitting 2 " higher like they should.

thanks, brad
they will be the same height but a different rate (hence the thickness)

once the vehicles weight goes on the spring should sit 2" higher.

at only a 2" lift you really dont need the springs to be any longer ebcause you havent changed your travel significantly.

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:05 pm
by Slunnie
Its pretty common for commercial 2" lift springs.

It also means that they don't need to get into any complications from running long shocks.

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:42 pm
by sleeping giant
Thanks for the help guys. front is done, try tackle the back tomorrow arvo.