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Try driving around California in a 15ton. There are ok roads and there are roads I will not go on.
There are also stretches of the freeways we do not ride in the right lane. On some we ride in the left lane.
First you need to weight the front axle empty.
Then you take it to a truck spring shop that does work on class 8 trucks and they can do the conversion for you correctly.
The front springs can be redesigned several ways. The firs way is to soften them and let the air bags carry the extra load...
I you people want to endanger the lives of the other people on the road as well as yours then this hobby is doomed.
A broken leaf Spring can pop out and go through someone else's windshield killing a person in the car, it can also shred tires, air lines or worse.
I have seen a lot of crazy...
I told them to configure the springs to carry the truck, 20,000 lbs with 12,000 lbs on the tandems, plus the camper at 5,000 lbs, plus the trailer tongue weight at 3,000 lbs and add 2,000 lbs for?
The 2,000 lbs will be partially used when I mount additional water and holding tanks.
As far as...
Funny thing about this thread being here now.
I weighted my truck by the axle on the way to the spring shop this morning.
They are going to remove the rear springs and reduce the capacity so it is more in line with the camper that i carry.
So my advice is to have a reputable spring shop do...