leaf spring re-arch at home???

[brplante]

can i use a come-along to pull leafsprings together by the eyes to re-arch them? no company within 50 miles of me does re-arching...

what would the best way to do it be? besides a hammer and anvil...

 

[gwaii]

no.



a 20 ton press works ok.

 

[gwaii]

actually,let me elaborate....not only would that not make a lick of difference to the spring,but you also have a very good chance of killing yourself.

what you would be doing is turning the spring into a large energy storage device......and if the come along should break or release for any reason,the spring would release all that stored energy in one shot-any part of your body that was in the path of the spring would be promptly removed from the rest of your body......and the spring would be laying on the floor amongst your severed parts with exactly the same amount of arch as it had before.

 

[brplante]

actually,let me elaborate....not only would that not make a lick of difference to the spring,but you also have a very good chance of killing yourself.

what you would be doing is turning the spring into a large energy storage device......and if the come along should break or release for any reason,the spring would release all that stored energy in one shot-any part of your body that was in the path of the spring would be promptly removed from the rest of your body......and the spring would be laying on the floor amongst your severed parts with exactly the same amount of arch as it had before.

yeah i figured i'd be making an over sized killer longbow, but i figured i would ask. i found the 64" gm leafs i need to do the shackle flip conversion deal, but i cant figure out how to get them bent without the 100 mile round trip, would bending them into the shackles without having them rearched be any remote possibility?

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Just install them without the shackle flip. They still work great with a compression shackle set up.

 

[brplante]

Just install them without the shackle flip. They still work great with a compression shackle set up.

correct me if im wrong please, but im going for flex and travel, not alot of lift, so if i did that wouldnt that make the truck ride alot higher in the rear? and if i did do it the way you are saying and it did make too much lift could i take out the stock blocks to eliminate the extra height? and wouldnt the shackle flip leave the height the same and make flex alot better? this truck has literally no flex with the current setup...

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Well I have a 3 leaf 63" chevy pack with the stock block and an extended shackle. It sits level with my 5" front suspension lift. If you took the stock block out and ran a regular length shackle I bet it would sit factory level. Without the block and an extended shackle (which helps with flex a ton) it would sit about 2" higher than stock.

 

[brplante]

Well I have a 3 leaf 63" chevy pack with the stock block and an extended shackle. It sits level with my 5" front suspension lift. If you took the stock block out and ran a regular length shackle I bet it would sit factory level. Without the block and an extended shackle (which helps with flex a ton) it would sit about 2" higher than stock.

i figured doing the shackle flip i could run an extended shackle, leave the block and run the gm leaf pack and get around 2" of lift and acheive the amount of flex im after. the trails i usually wheel on dont need much clearance but flex is a good thing to have there.

but i see what you mean now about running the shackle stock and extending it, it would point more to the rear and even out the extra leaf length, correct?

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

You still have to move the front hanger forwards when you install the 63's like I did. It has to go forwards 6".

This is how mine flexes

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

actually,let me elaborate....not only would that not make a lick of difference to the spring,but you also have a very good chance of killing yourself.

what you would be doing is turning the spring into a large energy storage device......and if the come along should break or release for any reason,the spring would release all that stored energy in one shot-any part of your body that was in the path of the spring would be promptly removed from the rest of your body......and the spring would be laying on the floor amongst your severed parts with exactly the same amount of arch as it had before.

lol, that's exactly my thoughts when I read this!

 

[TheTopher]

At least video tape it if you decide to go that route

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

at least video tape it if you decide to go that route :d

lulz!!!

 

[heptofite]

this thread begs the question: why has nobody made a massive re-bar firing crossbow out of chevy leaf springs yet?

 

[r1hatman]

At least video tape it if you decide to go that route

 

[gwaii]

this thread begs the question: why has nobody made a massive re-bar firing crossbow out of chevy leaf springs yet?

trust me....as soon as i replied last night,designs for one started floating through my head