17 Dec 12, 01:52 pm
Still don't agree with modification for the reasons that CA and Mel specified.
Agree with them that buying a used set of springs from anywhere is your best bet.
It's amazing how much research engineers did to try to create a decent product. While some improvements could've been made, other items were pretty decent to start with.
CA, when I worked at Ford there were 8 options for rear springs and 12 options for front springs between the F-250/F-350 trucks. We had to swap coils all the time thanks to TSB's which called for changes to fix guess what....caster angle. As long as the truck wasn't over 36K miles it was covered. (for certain vehicles anyway) I changed several sets...
Agree with them that buying a used set of springs from anywhere is your best bet.
It's amazing how much research engineers did to try to create a decent product. While some improvements could've been made, other items were pretty decent to start with.
CA, when I worked at Ford there were 8 options for rear springs and 12 options for front springs between the F-250/F-350 trucks. We had to swap coils all the time thanks to TSB's which called for changes to fix guess what....caster angle. As long as the truck wasn't over 36K miles it was covered. (for certain vehicles anyway) I changed several sets...