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  1. Jun 30, 2023 at 5:33 PM
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    i ordered the supplies yesterday. Tell me this 4th attempt is going to finally solve this !?
     
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  2. Jun 30, 2023 at 9:01 PM
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    The RXTs have a thin short piece of sheet metal near the center pin that separates each leaf, probably 12" in length total. I basically re-created the same thing but the sheet metal is the length of each leaf on my Alcan springs. Much quieter now. I tried the the rubber stuff and that didn't work for me.
     
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  3. Jul 1, 2023 at 6:08 AM
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    You tried this bike tube method and it didn’t work ?
     
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  4. Jul 1, 2023 at 7:50 AM
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    So what and how did you fix your Alcans? I have them but haven't messed with them yet.
     
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  5. Jul 1, 2023 at 8:29 AM
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    I used inner tube. It was worked pretty well on that side. I didn't put it inbetween each leaf as recommended, just in what I thought were the worst spots as that's what I had time for. Made it much better. I would think the pvc liner Colton linked would work very well.
     
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  6. Jul 1, 2023 at 2:12 PM
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    cool I ordered the bike tubes. Going to attempt this next week.
     
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    Definitely be careful to NOT put your fingers in between the leaves!
     
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  8. Jul 1, 2023 at 2:50 PM
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    Yea that would be a bad day. I see these damn leaf springs and hear them squeak in my nightmares after 3 power washings and 3 different type of lube attempts.
     
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  9. Jul 1, 2023 at 3:46 PM
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    I still need to do mine. I have 2 rolls of the Liners.
     
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  10. Jul 2, 2023 at 6:06 AM
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    Same problem here with the Icon's. The squeak makes it sound like a POS. Just got the supplies for the inner tube fix yesterday, fingers crossed
     
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  11. Jul 2, 2023 at 6:37 AM
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  12. Jul 2, 2023 at 7:34 AM
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  13. Jul 2, 2023 at 9:17 AM
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    Here are 2” wide sheet metal strips that I layered in between each leaf.

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    And here’s the rubber strips I threw away

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  14. Jul 2, 2023 at 11:27 AM
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    Yea same here it’s irritating. Mostly because my stock ones were quiet and I thought $700 leaf packs would be an upgrade over a shackle lift.
     
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    I’m assuming the rubber strips didn’t work the?
     
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  16. Jul 2, 2023 at 1:01 PM
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    Better performance does not always mean quieter. This is across the board with alot of performance mods. Unfortunately it is what it is... I don't know why they don't make these more quiet or the same as factory.
     
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  17. Jul 3, 2023 at 3:28 PM
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    Complete ! If this doesn’t work I’m gonna lose my mind . Will report in a week and so on.

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    Quiet for now anyway?
     
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    Yes sir. Thank you for the tips and the video.
     
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    You got it! :cheers:
     
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    Nope.
     
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  22. Jul 4, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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    OP I feel your pain with ICON’s leaf products. I did an add a leaf to my stock leafs and the squeaking started a month after. Drove me nuts and couldn’t get rid of it. Finally went with Deaver and no more squeak.
     
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    My RXTs had shorter "leaf shims" about 6" long between most of the leaves but not all for some reason (used unknown history) I added galvanized sheet metal shims between every leaf and it helped immensely. If you research leaf shims they're supposed to be brass. Plus some plastic plugs at each leaf tip to quiet them down. If I were to do it again I'd do brass shims and the inner tube tips and just service the tips as needed.
     
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    @memario1214 inner tube fix works a champ. Now, I have low droop springs and they spread a bunch, so after a hard day run, My inner tubes are all over the place - still sounds good, lol. I'm gonna unbolt shocks and limit straps run full droop and clean the shit out of the leafs. and once I have them all super nice, I'm putting inner tube back in there.
     
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  25. Jul 5, 2023 at 7:08 AM
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    I have NEVER had mine dance around, but I could see how that might happen if you're really hammering away at them and fully relaxing. I've never had any move, but it's clearly possible! I wonder how to keep them there for these types of use cases. Suppose you could stretch the tubing over the end of the leaf ends? Maybe try a little bit of glue to hold them? Can't really think of anything off-hand that I would want in there long-term that would actually bond the rubber to the metal. Might have to noodle on this a bit.
     
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    Sexy. I assume this is after installing inner tubes?

    I typically will upload to youtewb. Makes sharing videos easy.
     
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    Yea after the tubes. Got somewhat better but unfortunately still noisy.
     
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    I'm hoping to try and put my Liners in tomorrow.
     
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