Leaf Springs,Replace or recondition?
Read back; I said "highness" when you insulted several of us. And this is not the first thread that you insulted people.
Whatever dude. Again, I was not talking about ANYBODY. I was talking about "BS stupid advice" and I stand behind it. Put your big girl pants on and pull them up tight. Stop acting like little miss victim here because you swung first.
Now, back to the point at hand. The reason I am so vehmently against rearching is EXACTLY the reason Karl spoke of above. High mileage leaf springs have been through maybe hundreds of thousands of cycles in their life time. Steel DOES fatigue. I am not gonna come on here and recommend anyone rearch some sagging, worn out fatigued all up leaf springs, when you can buy them brand new for cheaper than it will cost to have yours rearched....and that's IF you can find somebody that still knows how to do it. It's just not a good decision, no matter how much you "wanna support the economy" or any other blah blah blah. The bottom line is, I don't want to be responsible for givin somebody advice and then have their **** break and hurt them, or someone else on the road. Some people just cannot see the bigger picture no matter how bright a light you shine on them. It is simply not cost effective to rearch springs when there are NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE spring packs available for 300 bucks and less shipped to your door. Tell you what. I am helping out at a friend's transmission shop. Here's what we would charge IF we did it.
1.0 hrs. to remove and replace springs. $75.00
1.0 hrs. to disassemble and reassemble spring packs. $75.00
3.0 hrs. to rearch and measure EACH individual leaf. $225.00
Oh and don't forget these. Let's say you can have them at cost....but we usually mark stuff 30% minimum.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ENS-5-2105G/ $47.95
That makes the grand total to have springs rearched in a professional shop $422.95 and that is in a shop that charges "only" 75 bucks an hour for labor when the going rate around here is 100 or more. Also not included are the little nuts and bolts that always strip and break on old rusted crap. Rearching springs is not a very fiscally smart decision. If that hurts anybodys feelings, I sure am sorry. Have your springs rearched if you want. IMO it's just a dumb thing to do.
And btw, we would use 100% American made springs if we chose to replace them.