So ive been looking around trying to get the best price on heavy duty coil springs, 5 pack leaf springs, leaf bushings, radius arm bushings, & axle pivot bushings. I noticed that JC Whitney was the least expensive for almost all of the parts I need. Some parts (MOOG coil springs, radius arm bushings) were by far cheaper then other places such as Bronco Graveyard, LMC Truck, O'Reilly's.
I was wondering if the parts are as good from JC Whitney, as getting them from say the local parts house. Just curious due to the big price gap.

 

Shipping such heavy parts might be the great equalizer for this sort of thing---not too likely JC has free shipping?

Personally I'd check with a few local heavy truck spring outfits---they could probably beat most any one else's prices, tend to have so much of this stuff already in stock.

 

Well you are right about shipping being the equalizer on this. I ordered up the leaf springs (4 pack, 1700lbs capacity vs stock 5 pack 1395lbs capacity) from Bronco Graveyard for $205 but then shipping just for those through UPS was just shy of $100 due to there weight. Talk about sticker shock ... almost forgot about the shipping cost haha.

I checked with JC and they have free shipping but the customer reviews on the leaf springs they had had some cons - the bushing eyes didnt fit stock bushings and they didnt sell the right bushings. But there MOOG coil springs were a steel!

 

i would never buy anything from JC whitney.
they are the pep boys of the internet auto sales.
CHEAP china junk. it can not be made any cheaper than jcw crap.

 

I was about to make this same statement----for my entire life they've been known to have cheap stuff, albeit unique enough in some instances to at least warrant looking.

Just repeating my experience heavy truck shops think of most anything below an E250 or F250 somewhat like toys, easy peasy stuff they have to break out their "smaller tools" to do! For some reason they're always consistently less expensive than the typical consumer-type shops.