adding a leaf spring
Just wondering everyone's thought on adding a leaf spring to my TV. Is this a better route than airbags? I got a quote from a spring shop of 275 out the door. Looking to get the back end of the TV mor...
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hddecker wrote:tkhollywood wrote:
Think I am gonna go with the extra leaf. The shop said it will gain an extra 1000 lbs of payload. Plus with all the extra weight I carry on a daily basis with tools for work I think it will help.
It might add another 1000# of pay load, when they are telling you, but what about in writing. Are they going to give you a piece of paper that overrides the factory.
Who is accepting liability?
Totally agree with you.
When I choose to add a leaf to my truck and to add airlift bags to my SUV it was to better handle the maximum payload rating that already existed. Sure a couple hundred extra pounds in payload will likely never cause an issue, but I wouldn't want to be involved in an incident and be overweight at the same time.
The benefit to increasing load capacity of the suspension is that the vehicle is not maxed / bottomed when the maximum payload is reached.
