Buggy spring suspension

[McDerry]

From what I can see in the pictures... (remember here, I'm visually impaired) . How would you stop the spring osolations??? you have one spring working against the other... There is nothing holding the rear of the leafs in place other than another leaf. I can sit here and look at the pictures and VIVIDLY imagine someone applying the brakes and the truck doing some funky nose stand... and the "coup de gras"... Imagine if you will, the driver of that vehicle ascending a steep grade...hits the brakes because he or she is going too fast. Odds are, that truck is gonna wanna go ass over tea kettle to the bottom of said grade all because the "suspension" unloaded. Where ever you look at that ass o nine design, it spells disaster. I think it's safe to say that I'm not the only one out here with some sense of safety. I know I have done some crazy... maybe even insane things in my short time on the face of the earth... but if I did something like that, coming from a mechanical background and working in the field, I WOULD be stripped of ANY papers I have and taken to the nearest insane asylum and left there to ROT! PEOPLE... VOICE YOUR OPINION!!! IF THIS LOOKS ABSOLUTELY DANGEROUS, PLEASE SAY SO!

All the alternatives are just as bad...

Missing links
Super long shackles
Super long leafs
Super soft and long coils

If you have enough suspension travel to endo the truck when braking with one setup you'll do the same with the next. Plain and simple.

 

[F150hybred]

So your telling me that you would ACTUALLY do that to a truck of yours??

 

[CopyKat]

Ramp Queen.

Rates right up there with the revolver.

 

[McDerry]

So your telling me that you would ACTUALLY do that to a truck of yours??

What I am telling you is that THAT is just as dangerous as the other options.


When you are pushing the envelope on wheel travel as in like 30+ inches a wheel, theres a hole fist full of different ways, none of which will be any safer.

95% of the places you'd want to go as CK implied you dont need that much wheel travel. 14" of wheel travel will get you more Places then you'd ever go.

Its that last 5%, the places that make the billy goats afraid, then it comes in handy.

 

[THE WHITE RHINO]

i hate that set up with a passion i think its beyond janky alot of axle wrap and unloading going up and down hills