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Old 01-18-2016, 02:32 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hat_man View Post
I can only imagine what steel leafs weigh. That and losing two of them and replacing it with a single one.
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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