[91blazer]

ANYONE GOT AN EASY WAY TO FIND THE SPRUNG WEIGHT OF A RIG, IM CALCULATING FOR A COIL SUSP. I NEED EACH CORNERS WEIGHT.

 

[SeaBass44]

weigh your truck, now subtract the weight of your axles,tires and links,leafs whatever ya got coils shocks ect.no idea if your rig is drivable, but I don't see anyway to do it without having 1st weighed it 1st

 

[Benny]

weigh your truck, now subtract the weight of your axles,tires and links,leafs whatever ya got coils shocks ect.no idea if your rig is drivable, but I don't see anyway to do it without having 1st weighed it 1st

wouldnt ya wanna count half of the links weight as sprung weight? They are attached to both points and dont support the truck

 

[SeaBass44]

wouldnt ya wanna count half of the links weight as sprung weight? They are attached to both points and dont support the truck

I don't know, 99% of my answers I pull outs thin air anyway:flipoff2: :flipoff2: :flipoff2: .............I think 1/2 the tires are sprung weight on compression too :laughing: :laughing:

 

[KingOf_Pain]

Just get two bathroom scales, and weigh your axles/tires off the vehicle. Then weight the links, and driveshaft and divide those in half.
Then you need the entire rig weight at the front tires only, and then the rear tires only. I ran across a fellow who let me borrow his race scales. Subtract the Unsprung weights from their perspective ends, and you got the sprung weight at each end.

 

[91blazer]

how about jacking the spring up off the axle and sticking a race scale between them and letting it down?

 

[Eskimo]

how about jacking the spring up off the axle and sticking a race scale between them and letting it down?

If you have room for that....

Normally, you do what's been said, weigh the axles and such separately.