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Offline BigRedSamuri

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spring re-arching
« on: December 02, 2005, 07:27:49 PM »
can anyone give me any information how to to re-arch leaf springs? diagrams or pics or anything would help
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Re: spring re-arching
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2005, 07:33:24 PM »
Take them to a spring shop,
You can't rearch springs at home

Better yet, get springs designed with the
lift you want, or search for the springs to
swap into your Sammie
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Re: spring re-arching
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2005, 09:30:39 PM »
Come awn wild your slipping, I thought ya would of told him to put them on upside down and hit a few jumps and then put them back on the other way.   ;D
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Re: spring re-arching
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2005, 11:46:37 AM »
I've never had it under any of my trucks but from my friends' experiences I wouldn't rearch springs.  Spend the money and get new springs either over the counter or made custom for your needs.  Most of the rearching jobs have resulted in some combination of a rough ride, sagging suspension, eventual spring breakage, and money best spent elsewhere.

My buddy's rearching job proved that it is possible to get a ride worse than the stock rear springs of an 80's GM 3/4 ton.
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Re: spring re-arching
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2005, 04:31:25 PM »
i have rearched springs in a hydraulic pipebender.....you need to strip the spring and rearch each leaf individually.

what you must consider is that if you can bend a spring then it is weak and may last forever or no time at all before it goes bad again...
my current springs are staying up well at the moment.....
i decided to make up my own springs after bending 2 sets of new springs first time out.
now i twist my own packs out of used springs.
cheapass but its working for me for now.
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Re: spring re-arching
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2005, 05:15:37 PM »
One of my mates had his cold set then after wheeling them a few times they sagged again so he had them hot set just to find they failed again. After have both attemps fail he now has decied that new is the onl  way to go.
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