McDerry
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- Aug 19, 2007
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- Vehicle Year
- 1988
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Transmission
- Automatic
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.