Lowering blocks for a 1200

[worksnaDELUXE]

Okay so I know I can get them from bprojects in Japan, but I need there here next week. Anyone know where I can get them in the US? California?

 

 

Thanks!

[datzenmike]

 

Just buy 2" box steel or thick aluminum wall box. Cut and drill your own and clamp between the axle and the spring. Try a scrap metal shop. All you need is 6" each side.

[worksnaDELUXE]

yea i suck at that kind of stuff, Im really trying to find lowering blocks that will fit. 

[datzenmike]

I believe the rear leaf spring is 2" wide, you could check. Get 12 " of 2x2" and cut in half. Drill holes for the alignment dowel on the top of the leaf spring and a small bolt for the top of the box to fit the spring perch and four new U bolts. You could do this from scrap pieces and certainly for maybe up to $10 plus the U bolts. Telling your friends "Those lowering blocks? They're nothing, I threw them together myself".... priceless. 

[graveltrapp]

I used shucks specials. They work fine.

I did have to pinch down the new u bolts and file the lower plate holes a bit to make it all line up.

I've heard you can have custom u bolts bent up at a suspension shop.

[datsunfreak]

I used shucks specials. They work fine.

 

This. 

 

If you have a Pep Boys near you, they sell them as well. 

http://www.pepboys.com/product/details/1154801/00751

 

 

I've heard you can have custom u bolts bent up at a suspension shop.

 

Also this. Local shop to me called Ray's Champion Spring makes them to our exact specs, in a few minutes, and they are relatively affordable.

 

We used to use the Pep Boys u-bolts, then heat and rebend them to the right diameter, but the ones the spring shop makes are zero effort and not much more expensive. 

[datsunfreak]

For that matter, a good spring shop can re-arch your leafs to get it lower without the need for blocks at all.  :thumbup:

[Mattndew76]

The pot metal pep boy stuff looks legit.

 

I couldn't beat that price for kits.

[worksnaDELUXE]

A member here messaged me and there's a shop by my house that re archs the leaf springs. I'll proably go that route. Thanks for all the replies, help!

[datzenmike]

Beware!! Some idiots heat them with a torch and let the weight sag them.

 

While they are apart add an extra leaf to firm them. Good insurance against bottoming and will handle better too. 

[worksnaDELUXE]

Beware!! Some idiots heat them with a torch and let the weight sag them.

 

While they are apart add an extra leaf to firm them. Good insurance against bottoming and will handle better too. 

 

 

Will do! Thank you!

I'll let everyone know how it turn outs.

 

How should they be doing it? What's the right way?

[datzenmike]

All metal has a bending limit (yield strength) that if not exceeded, will return to it's previous position. Spring steel has a very high yield strength. If bent past this point, it is permanently changed. I had some leaves re-arched and it consisted of dozens of small bends, done in a hydraulic press, along the length of the leaf. When done it was more arched.