Look what i broke after driving 1,100 Miles...
04-20-2009, 09:02 AM
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LOL!!! nah i took a trip to tennesse last week and i came home to inspect it for leaks and stuff that might have happened over the trip and i saw it.... i had no idea about it at all didn't even know when it broke but i know i was during the trip...
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04-20-2009, 09:27 AM
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It looks as if it has been broken for a while as all that rusty powder concentrated around that break is evidence of that. You may have bought it that way or maybe lent it out to a youngster who caught air but its not new.
A spring doesnt just break like that from age of fatigue.
Just my opinion.
Time for an upgrade? Any thoughts?
A spring doesnt just break like that from age of fatigue.
Just my opinion.
Time for an upgrade? Any thoughts?
04-20-2009, 09:30 AM
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This is the downfall with add-a-leafs. For whatever reason, they decided do not make them full length, and it adds an extra pressure point in the middle of the springs flex point. Esentially, it acts like a lever and with enough pressure applied, it snaps.
04-20-2009, 12:41 PM
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and yea to all the peeps..... there was one leaf acctually aready broke before this and its the one with the rubber round thing on it.... that one is a factory one, and was broke for a long time....about 2 years it stayed broke, and the bottom leaf is an ad leaf.... it is acctaully held up right now by some coil springs my dad wielded to the axle a long timeago to keep from bottoming out. the frame never touches them unless it hits a real good bump.... but now that side leans on it..... without the spring i would prolly be screwed.... but i have another leaf spring from a junk truck that i plan to put on here soon.....
Last edited by Kiroshu; 04-20-2009 at 12:43 PM.
