Custom Leaf Springs Input-Alcan & Dakar only?

There is a ton of thick black paint on these that's for sure

 

9/16" is your u-bolt size?

 

Yes

 

Right now my ubolts are at 90 ft lbs, rear shackle is at 65 ft lbs, and forward spring mount is at 90 ft.lbs.

 

Look at what showed up today. UPS driver wanted nothing to do with them. Knocked on the door and said “I’ve got some springs in the back of my truck.” Translation: come get your crap out of my truck, I’m not touching them.,

 

What shackles are you running and what are they torqued to?

 

Haven't looked at it yet but the pop stopped again after 2 days.

 

Weather change? Springs settled?

 

Weather has been up and down lol.

 

Alcan shackles. Don’t know torque spec.

 

coming on here complaining about it weekly and not getting under the truck isn't going to solve the issue but I'm sure you know this by now haha. "Its Okay I can be guilty of the same". Like I've said previously, I'm sure its the leaf springs themselves. The thick rubber type coating they put on them is sticky between the leafs. Until it wears out of there its going to make noise. When its warmer out it got worse for me and you could feel the coating was sticky as it rubbed off. When my deavers were new It happened every time i took off from a light or moved my truck for the first time in the morning. Now that I've gotten some miles on them and really cycled the suspension it is almost gone. It may do it every once in a while but it is 95% better than when they were new. I fully expect my alcans to do the same. You could jack the truck up and separate each leaf at its contact point and spray some lube in there but the better option seems to be turn the radio up and go flex that thing out haha.

 

99.9% of the sounds we bitch about can be solved by turning up the radio

 

I used to be so concerned about the noises my rig made....Now the only noise that really makes me cringe a little is the sound of tree branches freddy crugering their way down the sides of my paint lol. Even then.......after 5 beers I forget all about it.

 

Amen

 

Well got the Alcan’s installed today.

• +800 lbs
• 8 leafs per pack
• Ordered 1.5” lift in the springs + .5” from shackles = 2” lift
• Rear height after springs is nearly 3”

Currently sitting with nearly a 3” rake. I may have to raise the front a bit, but before doing so did anyone with Alcans see any settlement? If so, how much did they settle?

 

What did you torque everything to? I still have popping.

 

Sorry, don’t know. I had a local off road shop do the install.

Did your springs settle any?

 

I'll measure them after I find my measurements that I wrote down.

 

Yes. I would say mine settled 3/4” to 1.0” and softened just slightly. Or maybe I just got used to them.

 

Sounds good. How long did it take to settle? Just wondering how long to wait befor I adjust my front height.

 

That's a ton of settling imo

 

I still need to check mine. This popping is driving me crazy now....I'll look at it next weekend.

 

You sure it's from the leaves?

 

No popping from mine. Hope you figure it out

 

Has to be the shackles or rear sway bar.

 

Do you have different shackles you can try out? I have my stocks if you need em

 

I still have my stock shackles. I haven't messed with it but it could be a torque issue. The pop starts as soon as you take your foot off the brake when in reverse.

 

Have you checked your u-joints?

 

No but I would doubt ujoints going bad already.

 

Worth looking into. One more thing checked off the list. At the least I'd swap shackles.