Suspension Brakes 1st Gen Most liked posts in thread: Broken performance spring

wow never heard of a broken spring not unless the car was dropped out of an airplane!

 

I think you can take out the first word....... performance spring.

 

Very nice of H&R to do that for you.

 

I've heard of them in fact fell victim to 2 of them. Babs had an Integra & broke a front spring. I couldn't imagine how she did that. Went to my friends at the local import parts house & they say, how many do you want? Then he says they keep 4 of them in stock as they are big sellers. Crazy but true. I bought 2 to replace both front ones. When I took what I thought was the good side apart it was broken too. ut:

 

They really shouldn't break unless there's a defect in the metal
or a horrendous accident.

 

Don't remember the brand of the spring. It was the front barrel spring that came with the TSW softcore suspension.

 

maybe if you live in Barrow AK and it was -40f.....and you hit pothole...lol..

 

Back in the 90's I was sponored by a spring company that made springs for those animals in kids parks....the springs never broke..LOL

 

I broke some leaf springs on a Chevy LUV truck. We loaded it with over 1/2 ton of wood. We just welded in some steal tubing to replace them. Then it could hold plenty of wood.

 

yeah...leafsrings fail pretty often....limped a freghtliner to the shop last week...last year about this time, the right side failed (company is too cheap to do them in pairs)...this time the left...at about 950,000+miles right now...guessing they may not be the first pair...lol.

 

It is more fun when the center bolt shears & you have to dog track that truck down the road. :frown2: