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Originally Posted by hat_man
I can only imagine what steel leafs weigh. That and losing two of them and replacing it with a single one.
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The leaf spings on my suburban weigh some where around 80 to 100 pounds each.
Good thing about the leaf springs is they disperse the weight of the body to 4 points on the frame. Then if you have coil over helper shocks like I do then you have 6 points of load distribution.
Then if you go to a singe leaf spring you are putting a double point load where there is no existing vehicle frame.
So any weight saving just got added back by having to use a heaver single leaf spring and from adding an additional frame cross member.
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1984 chevy suburban, custom made 6.5L diesel turbocharged with a Garrett T76 and Holset HE351VE, 22:1 compression 13psi of intercooled boost.
1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
2011 leaf SL, white, portable 240v CHAdeMO, trailer hitch, new batt as of 2014.
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