Hey,guys maybe I am just coil ignorant, but for those of you that convert your leafs to coils, what do you use for the coil mounts, upper and lower. Or what works best? Just doing a little research here. or if you have some really close up, detailed pics, that would help me get an idea.
coil spring mounts
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Brett
Meat-Hippy
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Depends on the vehicle. Rubicon makes some coil buckets that will mount up to a Dana 30 no problem.
What are you trying to throw them on?
What are you trying to throw them on?
Mike_Lib
Mall Crawlin'
Yeah, Rubicon makes some but they are $$$'s.
I needed some new coil mounts so I made my own out of a few different sizes of DOM, a hole saw, and a welder.
The bottom piece was like 5" OD and 1/4 wall. Then I had a piece of solid 5.5" tube sliced into a 1/4 slice and welded that on top of the big tube. Lastly I used an oddball size (something like 3 1/8) to put on top that would hold the coil pad just as the stock one. Note the stock coil mount on the right and my new ones on the left. Material is probably a bit thick and heavy but my rig is already a heavy biotch
Oh yeah...metal supermart did the cuts for like nothin'. All the material + cuts was less than 20 bucks.
I got a 3" hole saw from home depot and chucked it in my press...low speed...lots 'o oil and they came out perfect.
Now I gots 5 degrees of caster and a perfect pinion angle.....oooohhhh...ahhhhhh
I needed some new coil mounts so I made my own out of a few different sizes of DOM, a hole saw, and a welder.
The bottom piece was like 5" OD and 1/4 wall. Then I had a piece of solid 5.5" tube sliced into a 1/4 slice and welded that on top of the big tube. Lastly I used an oddball size (something like 3 1/8) to put on top that would hold the coil pad just as the stock one. Note the stock coil mount on the right and my new ones on the left. Material is probably a bit thick and heavy but my rig is already a heavy biotch
Oh yeah...metal supermart did the cuts for like nothin'. All the material + cuts was less than 20 bucks.
I got a 3" hole saw from home depot and chucked it in my press...low speed...lots 'o oil and they came out perfect.
Now I gots 5 degrees of caster and a perfect pinion angle.....oooohhhh...ahhhhhh
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Originally posted by Mike_Lib
Yeah, Rubicon makes some but they are $$$'s.
I.................lots 'o oil and they came out perfect.
Now I gots 5 degrees of caster and a perfect pinion angle.....oooohhhh...ahhhhhh
NICE!! What did you end up doing for a shock mount, Mike?
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Originally posted by Mike_Lib
Welded some tabs to my long arms...now I can run the longest travel Nacho since the working distance increased (i think it's like 14" travel)...and I get some crazy droop.
Cool.........I did a fresh mount myself, but put it the crotch of the axle and the knuckle.....sorry, the pics are kind of dark. Your execution was my original thought, but I thought I might hit the shock body on the frame at droop.
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That's what I did after a little 'cleaning' grinder action. I've rewelded it since then as I don't think I used enough heat originally and the weld started to pull away from the knuckle (hopefully just a bad weld, not an indication of things to come). I'm going kind of conservative on the heat as that might affect the metallurgy in the 'C' of the knuckle, but who knows...........if it keeps breaking, I'll go to exactly what you did.
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