used leaf springs - help or opinions
 

I'm looking for some new springs for the X. I don't have a big budget so I'm looking for an inexpensive solution.

Springs don't come up often on Craigslist in my area but some did the other day, so I went to take a look.

I've exhausted my searches trying to figure out what these might be. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Also, has anyone ever replaced a cracked leaf? One of the springs below has a cracked leaf. More on that below.

I'm ready to pull out a leaf, add a leaf, etc.

Is this set worth messing with?

The fronts are apparently off a 1999 F350 and came off the truck at 20k miles when it was lifted. They actually look pretty new.

The fronts have the following on them:
YC35AMC
RPN2520

The rears are another story. One rear has 5 leafs (plus the short flat one). The other rear has 4 leafs (plus the short flat one), and the second leaf in from the short flat one is cracked. It almost looks like the spring with 4 leafs used to have 5 in it. There are no helpful identification marks on the rears.

Here are some pics. The first one shows the cracked leaf in the rear spring on the right. You can also see how the left rear has 5 leafs and the right rear has 4 leafs. The second pic is a front spring. The third pic just shows all 4 springs.

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If I remember prior posts correctly, there is no real way to correlate the numbers on the springs with the spring load they are...the only way you can do that is to look at the door sticker (driver side, B Pillar, bottom) and get the code from that sticker to determine what load range the springs are for.

I know I ran into the same problem you are describing when I did my V/B swap...I had to not only find a yard who said they had the springs, but then make sure the yard still had the springs on the truck. I went to two or three that said 'yea, those are V codes' and when I got there, they had zero way of actually backing up the claim - they had a vehicle ID but couldn't produce the stats from the door sticker.

I started looking at heavy duty dismantlers and finally found one a few blocks from my house that had 3 or 4 different pickups and all still had the springs (and sticker) still on the truck, so I could visually verify they were correct.

It's easy to replace the cracked one and you might have to do some leveling afterwards also. I would buy them, worst case scenario is having to level.

Thanks EXv10!

I've used only CL springs on my rig, worked well.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...y-turn-vs.html

Search the forums for the "V code" swap...there is a ton of info there on spring codes...

Thanks, I read through your post. I like how you took the time to paint everything.

I assume you got new ubolts? How did you source them?

$15 per spring? Wow that's awesome. Never seen anything like that on CL in Colorado. I'm hoping to get the ones at the start of my thread for $150 total.

The auto salvagers in the area want something stupid like $300 for each pair. Might as well buy new in that case!

My main concern with this set of springs is the cracked leaf. I'll need to get a replacement leaf and probably replace the same leaf on the other rear at the same time to try and keep the spring rate/height the same. Just not sure what replacement leafs will cost yet.

Nah, just use the old ones, but don't tell anyone here else you'll get some grief. See if you can buy a single leaf from a junk yard. Or put an wanted post in our 'for free' thread, everyone else does.:D

Here's the rears when ya get around to it.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...c-springs.html

Thanks again Sean. Funny I actually posted on your old rears thread way back when.

Let the CL negotiations begin!!