Smoothing out Smooth Ride Springs....

You got some nuts getting under that thing.

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Rust in between springs makes for a rough ride too. In old race cars they used to grease the leafs up, and then wrap them. It's a good way to get them to flex against each other easier and keeps them from rusting. I don't remember what they used to wrap them, or if it'd be too much of an eye sore for you, but it does work surprisingly.

And I agree that you're crazy. Buy some bigger stands!
 
Some springs have a very thin plastic rub spacer between each leaf, near the tip, which is probably the best way of making one leaf spring slide against another.

Mark.
 
Mark Nixon said:
Some springs have a very thin plastic rub spacer between each leaf, near the tip, which is probably the best way of making one leaf spring slide against another.

Mark.
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Yup, and it looks like he replaced them. They just tend to fall off/break off kinda easy.
 
Shainer said:
You got some nuts getting under that thing.

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YOUNG GUNS15 said:
That's scary, put the blocks UNDER the jack stands. It will save your life
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You know it never even occurred to me while I was working on it to do it that way.....your right it would have been much better with the block "Under" the jack stand....:doh:

I always try and be as safe as possible while working in, around and under vehicles. As scary as that looked, it was still very stable. I always give my vehicles a good shaking to make sure it's stable....the truck did not move. ;)

But regardless...thank you for pointing that out. Any comments, good, bad or otherwise is always appreciated...and learned from.
 
thrashingcows said:
You know it never even occurred to me while I was working on it to do it that way.....your right it would have been much better with the block "Under" the jack stand....:doh:

I always try and be as safe as possible while working in, around and under vehicles. As scary as that looked, it was still very stable. I always give my vehicles a good shaking to make sure it's stable....the truck did not move. ;)

But regardless...thank you for pointing that out. Any comments, good, bad or otherwise is always appreciated...and learned from.
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No worries. Here is the logic. Always have the widest most stable base at the bottom (think of a parimid base). You actually performed that logic with your bottle jack in the background. I don't care if it was stable when you initially set it up. At any point in time it could have split one of those 4X6's right down the middle like a log splitter (never mind rolling off the jack). Always have a large stable base UNDER your jack stands. Glad it worked out but you could have become a fatality faster than a bullet leaving a gun in russian roulet.
 
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