Notice the lack of plastic and rolled rear fenders...

Oh come on!!!! Lets you know you are alive!!!! And when you get one of those steel barbs in your hand oh baby THAT is living!!!

nice roll on the fender DBAX. did you use a bat to do it?

No, I hand hammered them and about two weeks later, I saw the bat trick on tv.. Thanks though.

quick question, why in the ealier pics, one shock goes behind, and one goes infront? I always see this on pickup trucks and stuff. Better flex? Stability?

I think *think* that it prevents axel wrap, but I could be totally offbase on that one

I believe you are correct.

The entire X suspension is a direct copy of GMC.

Dan,

Maybe you will slow down when you get the gears. The truck will appreciate a little less throttle.........

When am I getting my sandwich.........

You guy's with lots of spending money. I guess going to Africa set me back in my spending on the truck. I should get it back soon.

Must take it out and play.........

Todd

DBAX does have his springs mounted backwards. Mil wraps go up front, english eyes in back. On my Alcans and my stockers centerpin to eye measurements were different front to back, wonder what that did for axle placement. Either way he will have to pull them out and reverse them.

The english eye on the rear of the spring pack would have more clearance to fit in a shackle, but I think he has enough weight on the truck to flatten the spring pack out a bit, and since the spring is longer than the stock spring, a longer shackle would be needed to prevent the spring from laying the shackle against the frame under full compression.

You're right, dammit. I had new U-bolts (grd 8 & 6 3/4") bent and they came with cutter nuts which are torqued to 65#. Now I've gotta' get new ones ..
You're also correct on the longer shackles keeping the springs from pushing the shackles back. That was my original intent and how I had it set up (w/ OE Shackles) until I saw they'd been pushed back. I put the CALMINI shackles back in and it's fine. The ass sitsup a little but it looks great and the ride's great too.

? for anyone that has installed these new spring packs.

How can you tell which end of the spring pck should face forward. I've seen some of them with 1 clamp on the back and 2 clamps on the front.

However my spring pack has 2 clamps on each end.

Thanks in advance!!!

Not sure what the "clamps" are Woody, but the end with the full wrap, the military wrap, goes into the front spring hangers.

the clamps are more than likely there to keep the leafs from fanning out. thats the way my slr add a leafs are too, and i have also seen people add them to the calmini ones that did not have them.

My spring packs look like the ones on the first post. Looks like 2 military wraps on both sides.

Does the calmini stencil face forward.

Thanks gang.

Aaahh, I see what you mean..
MIlitary wrap refers to the actual leaf end as it encompasses the bushing. It is not the "clamp" or leaf spring keeper.. The clamps are the spring keepers, and as SteelX mentioned, they're there to prevent fanning. The set of springpacks I'd recvd from CALMINI have four(4) total per leafpack. The stenciled CALMINI should go in the back, if they're painting them all the same.. To be safe, just be sure to have the military wrap at the front.

One last thing about these, and using them on a NON-SAS truck. I had the springs on using the CALMINI shackles (the OE are too short) and they worked fine, although they were angled out pretty far. With the addition of a 2" BL yesterday, they are sitting perfectly and the truck looks and handles great. Anyone adding these leafpacks would do well to consider the BL also.

I guess I don't understand. Why would the BL have anything to do with the springs. The BL is all above the frame, so I am having trouble understanding why it would make a difference.

I don't know why, but it appears the shackles are sitting more vertical to the frame.
It's good either way

Well, if it is better, than it is good no matter what the reason.

Thanks Gang,

Put the spring pack on yesterday and am sitting pretty. Regarding the direction of the springs the Calmini name goes forward and also the front bolts will only fit in one end - the rear is too tight for the springhanger bolts.

Raises the back up somewhat but have yet to put the tire carrier and skid plates back on the truck.

Woody,

Sounds like you may have things mixed up?…in my first picture the military double wrap (left end on the pix) goes on the front spring hanger, other end goes to the shackles.

Apparently a batch came with the bushing sleeves on the wrong end and some unwittingly installed them according to the only bolt size that fit those sleeves. The bushings holes are the same size just tap out /swap the sleeves and you should be good if that's your situation?

Now have my Calmini SAS leaf pack installed as well...see the suspension section and the "relocation of rear shock mounts" thread for pics and such...

Well all right. My SAS spring pack showed up today!

Now, I was going to wait for the UB Skidderz to put them all on together, but kind of want to put the springs on tonight in prep for this weekend's trip to Death Valley. Overeager, party of one.

My question is this, Xtoolbox mentioned a while ago that, in his case, the stock u-bolts were a bit short, but Calmini said they were okay for length.

Any input? Are the stockers usable?

Bobby,

Not recommended to reuse u-bolts but the stockers will work just barely but you may need to use lock nuts only instead of regular ones with lock washers (which are thicker). I ran that setup temporarily until CALMINI sendt me the new gold longer ubolts and nuts.

Pretty sure they stock them and sell a bunch so I would call & ask for david who's knows what to send you.

Brian

Damn...a bunch of us are now using the SAS packs on non-SAS'd trucks...Calmini should start advertising them as just full replacement packs...