My 2000 s10 blazer zr2 that i straight axle'd has always had some bad brake dive. Im running Rancho 44044's which seems to be the spring of choice for solid axle'd s10's. They were brand spankin new when i bought them less than a year ago and right off of the UPS truck i had bad brake dive.
Ive been putting up with it for awhile now but after trying to make a bastard front leaf spring pack to lower the front of my blazer down and finding that it only lowered me an inch and gave me even more brake dive it is time to address it. My bastard pack consisted of taking the top 2 leaves from my 44044 pack because of having the strength in them both being full length springs over the 2nd leaf in a stock waggy pack being shorter. So i then took the bottom 5 leaves out of a stock height waggy pack and put them together with the top 2 from the 44044's. Installed them and found it only lowered me 1" when i was going for the full 2" and gave me even worse brake dive than i had with the 44044's.
I put the 44044's all back together putting all of the long side of the leaves facing the front eyelet(short side of the spring from the center pin to the eyelet) wondering if maybe this would give me a little more spring rate to combat the dive. Havent drove it yet to see if it did or not.
Anyone see any problem with running with the long side of the leaves all facing the front eyelet instead of the rear like Rancho installs them?
Like i mentioned above i would really like to lower it a full 2" which would be easy if i could get away with just swapping in a set of stock height waggy springs but i cant do it because my brake dive gets even worse. Its like the front of my blazer is too heavy for the waggy leaf springs but i find that hard to believe seeing how they had v8's and im still only running the v6(yes i know it isnt much lighter). I havent heard of anyone else having brake dive issues like i am when running these springs.
I know i can go to Alcan or similar and get a set of springs made to my liking with the correct weight of the blazer and everything else but would really like to avoid the cost if at all possible.
Heres where my shackle ange sits at
Ive been putting up with it for awhile now but after trying to make a bastard front leaf spring pack to lower the front of my blazer down and finding that it only lowered me an inch and gave me even more brake dive it is time to address it. My bastard pack consisted of taking the top 2 leaves from my 44044 pack because of having the strength in them both being full length springs over the 2nd leaf in a stock waggy pack being shorter. So i then took the bottom 5 leaves out of a stock height waggy pack and put them together with the top 2 from the 44044's. Installed them and found it only lowered me 1" when i was going for the full 2" and gave me even worse brake dive than i had with the 44044's.
I put the 44044's all back together putting all of the long side of the leaves facing the front eyelet(short side of the spring from the center pin to the eyelet) wondering if maybe this would give me a little more spring rate to combat the dive. Havent drove it yet to see if it did or not.
Anyone see any problem with running with the long side of the leaves all facing the front eyelet instead of the rear like Rancho installs them?
Like i mentioned above i would really like to lower it a full 2" which would be easy if i could get away with just swapping in a set of stock height waggy springs but i cant do it because my brake dive gets even worse. Its like the front of my blazer is too heavy for the waggy leaf springs but i find that hard to believe seeing how they had v8's and im still only running the v6(yes i know it isnt much lighter). I havent heard of anyone else having brake dive issues like i am when running these springs.
I know i can go to Alcan or similar and get a set of springs made to my liking with the correct weight of the blazer and everything else but would really like to avoid the cost if at all possible.
Heres where my shackle ange sits at