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rear ride height #787825 02/09/07 04:03 AM

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BC Canada

Jake

Getting the Wheeling Fever

finally getting new rear leafs for the '82 to replace the fat add-a-leafs the prev owner put in. Best guess is a 4" lift spring but nobody i've talked to can say for sure. I want to make sure i'm gonna end up with something close to what it is now. Anyone out there w/ 4" lift that could tell me how far they're frame sits off the axle? I
've currently got about 17" from top of the diff to the bottom of the frame rail @ the inside center of the leaf.
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82 4x4- tipped flipped & sunk. A "work in progress"

Re: rear ride height [Re: Jake] #787826 02/10/07 12:12 AM

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BC Canada

Jake

Getting the Wheeling Fever

nobody has a 4" lift or nobody has a tape measure?

82 4x4- tipped flipped & sunk. A "work in progress"

Re: rear ride height [Re: Jake] #787827 02/10/07 12:23 AM

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Pensacola, Fl

bodo

Getting the Wheeling Fever

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nobody has a 4" lift or nobody has a tape measure?

Nobody wants to tell you the wrong thing as the lift will vary from spring to spring.

Re: rear ride height [Re: bodo] #787828 02/10/07 01:55 AM

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BC Canada

Jake

Getting the Wheeling Fever

The springs I am buying are Pro Comp and I will be using the stock shackles. Just hoping to get a rough idea as the shop that's selling me the springs took a guess, sight unseen, based on tire size(33's)and the gap from the tire to the fender(8").

82 4x4- tipped flipped & sunk. A "work in progress"

Re: rear ride height [Re: bodo] #787829 02/10/07 03:09 AM

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Tacoma, Wa.

YOTA88

Mudrunner

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nobody has a 4" lift or nobody has a tape measure?

Nobody wants to tell you the wrong thing as the lift will vary from spring to spring.

this is true <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />! one of the reasons being...some people pack alot more trail gear than others so vehicle weights are going to be different from rig to rig. you'll prolly get ten different heights fron ten different people using the same spring.

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Re: rear ride height [Re: Jake] #787830 02/10/07 03:26 AM

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Pensacola, Fl

bodo

Getting the Wheeling Fever

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That's a good spring and I'm sure there are people here running them but without knowing what you allready have you can't do a comparision.

What I'm trying to say is you could get 4" springs from every vendor out there and get all kinds of different ride heights. This seems very simple, 4" spring is a 4" spring, but it's not. Some springs are soft (like what you would want for rocks to flex) and some are stiff. When you drop a fullbodied rig on some springs that were designed to be on a buggy they're going to sag.

Re: rear ride height [Re: bodo] #787831 02/10/07 03:43 AM

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Oregon, Albany

rednekbean Offline

Wheeler

yes generally to fit 33's with that kind of clearance will be around 4". what else would work is if you could get a stock measurement and see if the diffrence is about 4".

tell you what; when i had a 4" trailmaster lift and 33's the cleance for my back tire was i belive 7.5"- ish. that was with no weight in the back other than an aluminum truck box and it sat pretty level with the front.

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