bherder
11-24-2005, 10:06 AM
For those of you who hang plows on your rig this time of year....
My poor ol' 79 Powerwagon has had a plow hung on the front of it, in winter almost it's whole life. Needless to say that by now the front springs were getting pretty worn.
This summer I started into looking for a way to beef up the front suspension at a reasonable price. Yeah I could have bought brand new springs, but they were way more than my wallet allows.
Anyway, I started out by installing a pair of Rough Country 'Add-A-Leaf' springs. These worked out nice (And were pretty cheap) as they put the arc back into springs that were getting pretty flat. I felt pretty comfortable with those, but I still wanted some more beef (I'm running a Boss V-Blade plow which is about the heaviest one made)...
So I started looking for some coil-over shocks. Couldn't find anything for a rig that old...
Then, I stumbled on this website:
(WHY won't this program allow me to post a link?? Arrrrrrgh)
dubbya-dubbya-dubbya truckspring - dot- com
Saw these Timbren SES 'overload' kits and they looked just like what the doctor ordered. And pretty reasonable too! (About $150).. I was a little worried about the 'ride' but decided as being that I'm going pretty slow while pushing snow, it shouldn't be that big of a deal.
So I installed them (The only modification I made myself was to replace their bolts with grade 8 bolts... I didn't want anything breaking) and these things are GREAT. The ride isn't stiff at all, when I pick the plow up, the whole front end only drops about an inch or so, and I can drive at 50 mph with steering and suspension feeling rock solid. In fact, if I didn't know they were there, I'd never know they were there...
Anyway, thought I'd pass this info along to the rest of you with 'workhorse' Powerwagons :crazy:
My poor ol' 79 Powerwagon has had a plow hung on the front of it, in winter almost it's whole life. Needless to say that by now the front springs were getting pretty worn.
This summer I started into looking for a way to beef up the front suspension at a reasonable price. Yeah I could have bought brand new springs, but they were way more than my wallet allows.
Anyway, I started out by installing a pair of Rough Country 'Add-A-Leaf' springs. These worked out nice (And were pretty cheap) as they put the arc back into springs that were getting pretty flat. I felt pretty comfortable with those, but I still wanted some more beef (I'm running a Boss V-Blade plow which is about the heaviest one made)...
So I started looking for some coil-over shocks. Couldn't find anything for a rig that old...
Then, I stumbled on this website:
(WHY won't this program allow me to post a link?? Arrrrrrgh)
dubbya-dubbya-dubbya truckspring - dot- com
Saw these Timbren SES 'overload' kits and they looked just like what the doctor ordered. And pretty reasonable too! (About $150).. I was a little worried about the 'ride' but decided as being that I'm going pretty slow while pushing snow, it shouldn't be that big of a deal.
So I installed them (The only modification I made myself was to replace their bolts with grade 8 bolts... I didn't want anything breaking) and these things are GREAT. The ride isn't stiff at all, when I pick the plow up, the whole front end only drops about an inch or so, and I can drive at 50 mph with steering and suspension feeling rock solid. In fact, if I didn't know they were there, I'd never know they were there...
Anyway, thought I'd pass this info along to the rest of you with 'workhorse' Powerwagons :crazy: