[Mark]

I emailed Deaver, they called me back and laid it all out for me. The deavers are meant to replace the overload leaf. In turn they are there to allow more travel when offroading. BUT....BUT! Leaving the overload spring in will not hurt anything or damadge the deaver mini pack. So its up to all of you. Im leaving it in for my trip to TN. See how it goes, and make up my mind then. But either way, IT DOESNT HURT YOU AT ALL. If i was using the rig to just offroad every other day id take em out for sure. But right now there isnt a big enough reason to take em out.

 

[usmc xterra]

It was your idea, I made it work. BUT In TN we need lots of flex pictures so people BOLO (Be On the Look Out for Mr Campana's X and take pictures of stuff and droop, And the other X's so we can compare. It's now an experiment! MC

 

[ZwithanX]

Mine basically crush and granite that might scrape the bottom of the U bolts. he he

Z.

 

[Mark]

There wasnt really anything to "make work." We just left em in...........

U bolts scraping? Cut em shorter?

 

[Turtle]

Man you guys forget I'm next door?

mcampana,
Do you know of someplace we can twist our springs up and compare? Right now we have very camparable setups for the rear suspension with the exception being the overload leaf.

MC,
I know you have dirt piles near and dear to you, but we can't get to them per the soft ground in the middle :sad3:

By the way I just installed my shims this weekend and the vibration is gone. The angles look much better. I also send Greg some pictures of before and after of the driveshaft angles at the pinion and the transmission.

 

[Mark]

I have no clue where we can twist our springs up around here. You have any suggestions?

 

[usmc xterra]

Hey U guys, the pile I am talking about is out the back door of garage, Pictured here, the other piles were just made by the township when the dig the ditch I said I'll keep my topsoil, thanks! I just have to spread that out in the low spots. But you can get to this pile, it's their just for flex testing, this is my X stuffed with Timbrens. & 285's MC

 

[Muzikman]

***Ignore the town idiot***

It will help when hauling, if you should ever flatten the springs, but let's hope that doesn't happen as I think that would mean you are overloaded.

 

[Mark]

Muzic man.........um.............can you rephrase this so it makes sense? Or maybe im just retarded?

"The only thing leaving the overload leaf in will do is lower the rear end the thickness of the overload leaf. "

 

[Muzikman]

...er...yeah...

pay no attention to the idiot behind the curtain.

 

[HRUDU]

shims

OK Lords,

What the heck is a shim?
And what is that for?
Do I need it when I some day install the 2 1/2 deaver pack?
Does it come with the kit?

 

[willgr1]

a shim is exactly what it sounds like, it's a wedge shaped piece of metal that goes in between the leaf pack and the rear axle (fat part forward). raises the pinion angle so th drive shaft is not on an angle to the opening. this causes a vibration (bad!).....they will not come with the deavers...you may or may not need them, and if you do need them you will have to remove the u-bolts to put them in (so it's generally better to have them on hand and put them in when you put the deavers in....and according to greg at PRG, if you use shackles with the deavers you WILL need shims (i did)

 

[norshor]

Re: shims

OK Lords,

What the heck is a shim?
And what is that for?
Do I need it when I some day install the 2 1/2 deaver pack?
Does it come with the kit?

This helped me a ton.

 

[HRUDU]

Shims

Thanks for the info and the link.
:cheers: