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Re: Rear leaf springs

Postby MrRevhead » Fri May 10, 2013 7:57 pm

geeves wrote:The weird thing about that is that its unusual for the diff not to be in the center of the spring


Actually its very common for it to not be in the middle
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Re: Rear leaf springs

Postby 89DLX » Tue Jul 02, 2013 12:41 pm

Here in Aus and what I have seen there are a few company's that make kits for them. Iron Man make a kit for the ubs55, check there website for a dealer and phone number. I have seen tough dog kits sold on ebay, TJM also told me that they could get the tough dog as well. SuperCheap Auto sells Dobinson here so go check them out. RockCrawler also makes a set aswell as torsion bars. The only thing I have found hard to find is Steering Dampner's, But not hard to measure something up like Hilux etc. Let me know if you need some numbers. Cheers Sam
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Re: Rear leaf springs

Postby topgun94 » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:35 am

Hey guys.
Just installed a set of jackaroo lwb heavy duty 30mm raised dobinsons leafs into my Mu.
Picked up the leafs, greasable shackles and u bolts for a total of 450.
The ride is much better then the extended shackles previously and has heaps less body roll.
Should also be a million times better when towing the ski boat round aswel.
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Re: Rear leaf springs

Postby Jagd100 » Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:21 am

I've just done a leaf reset and 2" lift on my MU with Bellamy and East as one side was slightly down. It worked out really well and they did a good job for very reasonable price !!
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Re: Rear leaf springs

Postby geeves » Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:48 pm

resets dont work that well on Japanese springs. They are likely to sag within 6 mionths back to where they were unless they added a helper leaf which kills articulation
Sanding your knuckles before starting work can help. That way you cant skin them
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Re: Rear leaf springs

Postby Jagd100 » Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:31 am

Which is exactly what they've done :)
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Re: Rear leaf springs

Postby isuzurob » Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:37 pm

ive had reset 3 inch leafs in my truck for 8 months now no sag so far, have a brand new set of lovell leaves but havnt had time to fit
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Re: Rear leaf springs

Postby geeves » Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:59 pm

even the lovels have sagged 20mm in the 10 years since I fitted them
Sanding your knuckles before starting work can help. That way you cant skin them
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