Originally posted by ChuckH:
If you remove the top plate and move the U-Bolts apart at the top too, then you have even less lateral support for the spring pack, which means that tiny bolt down the middle of the pack is taking all the lateral load. And that bolt is hanging out the bottom where it can get sheared off. The plates should have lateral spring support all the way up to the axle and that center bolt should have protection. All they'd have to do is run the steel up different lengths for different applications or have fittings to go over the U-Bolts so they are not out away from the leaf packs.
I very much like the idea, but I see some possible failure points that would really concern me. At the very least, I would carry my old stock plates, U-Bolts, and a couple new leaf pack center bolts with me when offroading.
Not sure what that thin-gauge little piece of steel that sit atop the axle is going to do for lateral load... or even how to apply a lateral load exclusively to the spring pack. I really don't see a need for it, especially when you use oversized u-bolts. The design of the UB Skidderz and the "walls" that cup the springs prevent shearing of that pinn under lateral load. The spring pack "pin bolt" can be inverted to prevent shearing too. I've meaning to do that next time I get a chance to pull these off again.
I need to resize the original jpeg's... No photoshop here yet. I did screen captures in MS paint to reduce them and saved them as .jpg. Not how MS paint works... it's still a .bmp apparently. I have to dedicate some time to do this.
And I'm not selling these for Joe... It's a product I wanted and helped bring to the community and am glad to own. I just figured there would be others who might want something like this too.
Compared to the stock design, I can't see where a "failure" is gonna occur. You'll break a whole lotta other stoff before these give way.
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