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Looking good man, I like your creativity. One thing I would suggest is to make a small change with the axle end of your 1/4 eliptic springs. It looks like you don't have any sort of shackle in there? If you make some triple pivot shackles, it will dramatically improve the flex of that system. For one, while the axle moves up and down, it also moves forward and rearward, due to the links. If you don't have a normal shackle in there, it will bind and reduce flex. To reduce binding even more, make a triple pivot, with the center pivot being perpindicular to the top and bottom pivots, this will stop the springs from trying to twist. Here's an example, I took the old ranger shackles, cut them in half, and used just the end that is attached to the spring, to save a little fab time. Then welded this to a piece of square tube, with two "ears" welded to the bottom of this. The ears are about a 1/4 inch apart, and have the end of a leafspring that I cut off, slid in between. This is the center pivot, which has the bolt running front to back. To pop a hole in the spring, I used the plasma cutter, because drilling would have taken days. Then the bottom pivot is the spring eye between two tabs welded to the axle. If you cut it right, you could use your existing mounts you fabbed up, and just cut them off closer to the axle, and redrill some new holes.
Hope this helps you out a little, and you will definately notice a difference if you put in the triple pivots, I got about another 4-5 inches of flex in the rear axle just by eliminating the spring twist. You might benefit from losing a couple leafs in the pack too.
Keep up the good work.
Looking good man, I like your creativity. One thing I would suggest is to make a small change with the axle end of your 1/4 eliptic springs. It looks like you don't have any sort of shackle in there? If you make some triple pivot shackles, it will dramatically improve the flex of that system. For one, while the axle moves up and down, it also moves forward and rearward, due to the links. If you don't have a normal shackle in there, it will bind and reduce flex. To reduce binding even more, make a triple pivot, with the center pivot being perpindicular to the top and bottom pivots, this will stop the springs from trying to twist. Here's an example, I took the old ranger shackles, cut them in half, and used just the end that is attached to the spring, to save a little fab time. Then welded this to a piece of square tube, with two "ears" welded to the bottom of this. The ears are about a 1/4 inch apart, and have the end of a leafspring that I cut off, slid in between. This is the center pivot, which has the bolt running front to back. To pop a hole in the spring, I used the plasma cutter, because drilling would have taken days. Then the bottom pivot is the spring eye between two tabs welded to the axle. If you cut it right, you could use your existing mounts you fabbed up, and just cut them off closer to the axle, and redrill some new holes.
Hope this helps you out a little, and you will definately notice a difference if you put in the triple pivots, I got about another 4-5 inches of flex in the rear axle just by eliminating the spring twist. You might benefit from losing a couple leafs in the pack too.
Keep up the good work.
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