Rides like a tank

[roadking77]

Sorry for the delay. Here you go.

I wouldnt mind having a car with missles!

[71455formula]

The rear of mine sits about the same height as yours

Mine sits level. It's about 1.25" lower from stock. What makes this setup such good riding is the bushings. It allows the suspension to articulate and work. You can torque the control arm bushing bolts in place with the car in the air and grab the control arm and move it by hand. Even the rear leaf springs have them.

[N PRGRES]

Sorry for the delay. Here you go.

I wouldn't mind having a car with missiles!

I would be dangerous if my car had missiles

[N PRGRES]

The rear of mine sits about the same height as yours

Mine sits level. It's about 1.25" lower from stock. What makes this setup such good riding is the bushings. It allows the suspension to articulate and work. You can torque the control arm bushing bolts in place with the car in the air and grab the control arm and move it by hand. Even the rear leaf springs have them.

Very cool.  I am going to be getting into mine soon, waiting on the weather to warm so I can get the garage spray foamed and then heat installed.

[stros]

The rear of mine sits about the same height as yours

Mine sits level. It's about 1.25" lower from stock. What makes this setup such good riding is the bushings. It allows the suspension to articulate and work. You can torque the control arm bushing bolts in place with the car in the air and grab the control arm and move it by hand. Even the rear leaf springs have them.

Did you install the Global West shackle and front eye bushings on your leaf springs?  I was worried the extra articulation may result in my rear tires hitting the fenders as the gap is very narrow already.

[N PRGRES]

The rear of mine sits about the same height as yours

Mine sits level. It's about 1.25" lower from stock. What makes this setup such good riding is the bushings. It allows the suspension to articulate and work. You can torque the control arm bushing bolts in place with the car in the air and grab the control arm and move it by hand. Even the rear leaf springs have them.

Did you install the Global West shackle and front eye bushings on your leaf springs?  I was worried the extra articulation may result in my rear tires hitting the fenders as the gap is very narrow already.

  If you're asking me, I haven't touched mine yet

[71455formula]

I did install the Global West bushings in the leaf springs. My quarters lips have been trimmed, but i haven't hit anywhere in the wheel well. Make sure of is the offset and backspacing of your rims is correct.

[stros]

I did install the Global West bushings in the leaf springs. My quarters lips have been trimmed, but i haven't hit anywhere in the wheel well. Make sure of is the offset and backspacing of your rims is correct.

Thanks.  It’s the lips that have me a bit worried enough to not mess with my current setup.  The wheels are the most recent YearOne/OER snowflake 17x9s with 5 1/8” backspacing and 285 wide tires.  The PTFB suspension handles fantastic especially after the Blade front bar with the welded bar mounts now added.  It can beat you up a little bit though on the bumps.  The one thing I liked about the Global West bushings is that they’re greasable.  Last year I pulled out all of my leaf spring bushings and regreased them - that was a big pain especially given the close proximity of the shackle bolts to  the gas tank.

I was actually hitting the lips initially but adjusted the Viking shock setting rebound and compression settings to be a bit stiffer.  So far that has worked.