Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by suzukisteve » Tue Dec 10, 2013 11:34 am

I may be able to get my hands on some bilstiens....
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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by ScottieJ » Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:00 pm

suzukisteve wrote:I may be able to get my hands on some bilstiens....
The Off road range of bilstiens aren't made in Europe as far as i'm aware, the cheapest place to get them is the US, every European supplier I have seen have them up for over double the price you can get them from the US.
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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by suzukisteve » Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:14 pm

ill check with the supplier shortly and see what they come out at. wouldn't be surprised if they were over the odds as they can be a bit expensive
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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by ScottieJ » Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:08 pm

suzukisteve wrote:ill check with the supplier shortly and see what they come out at. wouldn't be surprised if they were over the odds as they can be a bit expensive
sweeet! could you get a price for the 5100, 5125 and 7100 series shocks please?
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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by suzukisteve » Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:15 pm

yeah no worries mate
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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by dan_2k_uk » Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:52 pm

I'm interested in this. Don't wanna buy cheap crap this time round.
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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by Jordi » Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:54 pm

dan_2k_uk wrote:I'm interested in this. Don't wanna buy cheap crap this time round.
Ditto.
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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by dan_2k_uk » Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:57 pm

So if Steve can't hook us up it looks like there are enough of us to order from the states anyway.

Or all chip in for me to fly over (preferably when King of the Hammers is on) and I will bring a few sets back in my suit case. :lol:
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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by ferris » Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:14 pm

I'd be interested in a set aswell if we were going to arrange a group buy,
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Re: Fitting YJ springs to a Samurai

Post by Ladaman » Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:53 pm

The things I do for you :suzuki: porn pervs. I've just taken my almost new HTC One Mini phone into the garage to take some pics.
I had the phone on the bench, a leaf spring fell over onto the phone screen, both fell onto the floor. The spring nicely landed on the phone again. Stopping damage to the spring you might say, but at the cost of quite a nice phone.

Oh hum!

So no pics of springs. Here is the phone though.
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So a description will have to do.
YJ Spring, following the curve from the centre of the front eye to pin 22.5". Pin to rear eye 22.5". Top leaf thickness 0.250" (6.4mm)
Nissan spring following the curve from the centre of the front eye to pin 25". Pin to rear eye 22.5". Top leaf thickness 0.320" (8.1mm)

So the axles should end up in a similar position to fitting YJ's, but a little thinking may be required to sort the back of the rear springs out.

How will the stiffness be affected by two long thick leafs, compared to a series of thinner staggered length ones? I don't know, but watch this space.
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