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  1. quickfarms

    front suspension mods AKA - ride improvement mods AKA - butt happiness mods

    You should ride the roads in California. There are roads we ride in the left lane because the right lane(s) are destroyed
  2. quickfarms

    front suspension mods AKA - ride improvement mods AKA - butt happiness mods

    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.
  3. quickfarms

    front suspension mods AKA - ride improvement mods AKA - butt happiness mods

    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...
  4. quickfarms

    front suspension mods AKA - ride improvement mods AKA - butt happiness mods

    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...
  5. quickfarms

    front suspension mods AKA - ride improvement mods AKA - butt happiness mods

    A cracked or broken spring is a red tag item and the truck is out of service until the spring is replaced
  6. quickfarms

    front suspension mods AKA - ride improvement mods AKA - butt happiness mods

    It looks like your bottom leaf may be cracked from the photo. Can you post a picture(a) of the entire spring and suspension
  7. quickfarms

    front suspension mods AKA - ride improvement mods AKA - butt happiness mods

    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...
  8. quickfarms

    front suspension mods AKA - ride improvement mods AKA - butt happiness mods

    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...
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