Rear leaf happiness
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:18 pm
After 2.5 years I have found the perfect rear leaf setup for perfect comfort and ride quality.
This suits my Supercab with ARB canopy, 140lts of fuel, drawers, battery, air compressor, air tank and whatever you can fill the drawers with.
Some will know the dramas I have had in the past and I have been quite happy for the last 12 months although the back was still a little spongy with a full tank and it leaned a bit through the corners.
From start to finish.
1. ARB OME 300kg constant load rear leafs. This left the rear so high that you could see the whole chassis rail plus some room to spare.
2. Remove one leaf from the pack which dropped the ride ride back to more acceptable height.
3. Brand new leaf pack ( no charge ) from ARB which are classed as standard weight with a 2 inch lift. I have lived with this for about 1.5 years and i has been pretty good. Rear height was spot on and the ride comfortable.
So the other day I decided to put the spare leafs I had from the original pack into what I had. I was informed that they would probably work out to be about a 200kg leaf pack. I was also going to put the shims between each pack and do the full rebuild before reinstalling as per previous post viewtopic.php?f=24&t=327. Result of that was they gave me all the wrong parts again!! Like WTF, I have unlimited time to waste with ARB. I already had them pulled to stripped them down and replaced the plastic spacers, re greased the pack properly and reinstalled.
End result was a further lift of only 1/2 an inch and the best ride I could ever imagine. The quality of the ride is amazing, supple like a sedan but strong enough to remove the body roll and my back is ecstatic about it. I have owned other 4wds with coils and the ride quality of this setup beats any of them hands down.
I have a design that cannot be bought from the factory and it is a winner.
This suits my Supercab with ARB canopy, 140lts of fuel, drawers, battery, air compressor, air tank and whatever you can fill the drawers with.
Some will know the dramas I have had in the past and I have been quite happy for the last 12 months although the back was still a little spongy with a full tank and it leaned a bit through the corners.
From start to finish.
1. ARB OME 300kg constant load rear leafs. This left the rear so high that you could see the whole chassis rail plus some room to spare.
2. Remove one leaf from the pack which dropped the ride ride back to more acceptable height.
3. Brand new leaf pack ( no charge ) from ARB which are classed as standard weight with a 2 inch lift. I have lived with this for about 1.5 years and i has been pretty good. Rear height was spot on and the ride comfortable.
So the other day I decided to put the spare leafs I had from the original pack into what I had. I was informed that they would probably work out to be about a 200kg leaf pack. I was also going to put the shims between each pack and do the full rebuild before reinstalling as per previous post viewtopic.php?f=24&t=327. Result of that was they gave me all the wrong parts again!! Like WTF, I have unlimited time to waste with ARB. I already had them pulled to stripped them down and replaced the plastic spacers, re greased the pack properly and reinstalled.
End result was a further lift of only 1/2 an inch and the best ride I could ever imagine. The quality of the ride is amazing, supple like a sedan but strong enough to remove the body roll and my back is ecstatic about it. I have owned other 4wds with coils and the ride quality of this setup beats any of them hands down.
I have a design that cannot be bought from the factory and it is a winner.