De-Arching Rear Leafs.

[RaiN]

After doing some pricing for the rear belltech leafs I decided to call around locally and see if there was a place where I could have my rear springs de-arched. One shop said that they could de-arch them 2" lower. I think that will compliment my 2" shackles well and leave me with a 4" drop total on my 2dr tahoe 4wd. That and I'm now sitting on a set of 20" Boss wheels with a 275/45/20 tire I should be fairly low on a 3/4 setup.

Thoughts?

[blackcherry90]

Im not sure but de-arching sounds like heating and heating any spring is bad. Do they say how they de-arch them?

[RaiN]

The most common way to de-arch is to heat and bend them back. I'm going to assume this is how they are going to do mine.

Nice ride BTW, what are you bagged on?

[tahoehtp]

hmmmm go look springtech on the ebay they make same drop kit but whole set is likw 115.. with key and shackle... I drove on those for year and never had any problem and ride good...

it will be much safer than de-arching spring to me..

[RaiN]

I already have a key and shackle kit on the truck now. I just want to get a couple more inches out of the rear, I think the rear de-arch is going to work perfect.

[tahoehtp]

hmmm you already too out load spring? if not that should be much better way... I think.

[RaiN]

Load spring is still on. Removal of the load spring is only going to be another half inch to a inch... This will get me 2inches. I bought replacement leaves incase it turns out crappy.

[Bagged 04]

What about drop hangers. There has to be a better way of doing this than what your planning. Hell take back your replacement just in case leafs and buy drop leafs. Don't cheap out. You will regret it later.

[RaiN]

Nah, I think the springs will be ok.. Plus I got a great deal on the springs, I think the total cost will be 100 or so after its said and done.

Did more reading and it seems that de-arching isnt as bad as people are making it seem.

[BadNewsSS]

I'm not sure why you asked for peoples thoughts, and just keep arguing with them. De arching leafs is garbage.

[tahoehtp]

take a pic when it's done.
wanna see how it turned out and how it looks like

[Bagged 04]

I'm not sure why you asked for peoples thoughts, and just keep arguing with them. De arching leafs is garbage.

Thats what i don't get. Seems like its a ****ty idea.

[RaiN]

I'm not arguing with anyone so calm down there BadNews.

Anyway, Swung over to the shop to get it done today. Took 20 minutes total. The spring shop used a 50 ton press to flatten out all the springs a little. I still have the overload spring in the pack, overall they pulled out 1.5" total.

tahoehtp, I'll get those pics asap.

[lowballer]

just my .02 cents but I work for the u.s. military at a line haul rebuild site and we remove all the old leaf springs and sub contract a local company to "re-arch" the springs and we get a 5 year warrenty and have seen 0 problems with our trucks springs even after having them come back blown up, rolled over, and durned to the ground in iraq.

[joakwin]

just my .02 cents but I work for the u.s. military at a line haul rebuild site and we remove all the old leaf springs and sub contract a local company to "re-arch" the springs and we get a 5 year warrenty and have seen 0 problems with our trucks springs even after having them come back blown up, rolled over, and durned to the ground in iraq.
what kind of vehicles do u work on?

i know that oshkosh truck rebuilds the army hemtts
and a few other vehicles also

[lowballer]

Yeah we rebuild the PLS hemtts HET and the line haul tractors from feightliner (m915a4/m915a3/m915a2/and 916a1's) and am generals old school 915a1, 916, 917, and 920's. We re arch and rebush all our springs at over 400 per year. ;-)

To my knowledge us (TXRSMS army national guard), red river depot, and Oshkosh are the only one's who do extenstive rebuilts of the pls and het's.