'59 Plymouth Forum

Why I aughta....One of these days Koch....To the Moon!!!

John Q.

It's OK to leave them on especially if John Q and myself are to ride in the back seat. When they are set correctly ,you do have to have the front end alignment checked and possibly adjusted. This is your choice and there is no harm leaving them on as long as they are a matched pair and no other leaves are broken.

Rick and I do loan ourselves out for rear spring testing. Just send us airline tickets and a nice hotel to stay in and we are good!

Rick and I rode in the back of his wife's Pink Panther 70 Challenger Convertible and it did not sag or bottom out. (miracle I know!) Ron and Marjo enjoyed a ride in last summer too!


John Q.

A pink panther 70 Challanger, OH MY GAWD!

Ralley suspension components! Tori and brother Max Stragand love to go for drives in Deb's Challenger. If you look close above the Challenger you can see Pam and John Quinn's Belvedere convertible.

yep! that is my (Pam's) 59 Belvedere convertible ride in the far back with Matthew answering questions on what the heck it is...Don't know if you can see Matthew or not without squinting.

Sadly I had to trailer it to this show. But this year I will drive it there!


John Q.

Denver 59 Fin Convert wrote:Dick, when I rode in those two cars it did not bottom out right? So they must work!


John Q.

Hey let me know if you come accross a source for those old helper springs. That's my last shot.

Hope all in well.

Ken

I believe last time I saw helper springs for sale was at a "farm fleet" store or similar. I think maybe they were intended for a trailer. Should work on a car, maybe.

As far as number of leafs, I thought I read or heard that Suburbans had 6 and the regular Fury, Bel, etc. had 5. When I bought my 4-dr Fury parts car it had good rear leaf springs that just happened to have 6 leafs. I promptly took them off and put them on my sagging 5 leaf spring Sport Fury. That was 10 years ago and springs are still holding up . Back in the '60's when I had my original SF, I remember replacing the rear leaf springs at least twice. Not from sagging, but broken leafs.

Another trick is to add one more small leaf to the tired springs from another set to renew its strength a bit. My local Mopar shop said i can do that first before re-arching he springs or getting a newer set should I suffer from the so called "Koch" sag in the rear end....

John Q.

Watch it, Quinn!

Ken - Go to www.jcwhitney.com use key word "helper springs".
Dick.

Dick Koch wrote:Watch it, Quinn!

I'm Sorry Dick.... Just could not pass that up... I am slimmer since my operation, down 30 LBs but ... I am interested in the helper springs too due to ahhhh lots of stuff in my trunk... Yeah that's the ticket! Junk in my Trunk!

(Hee Hee!)

John Q.

Excellent recovery.
Dick

Whew! Dodged a Plymouth on that one!!!


John Q,

Dick Koch wrote:Ken - Go to http://www.jcwhitney.com use key word "helper springs".
Dick.

Dick: Thanks for the suggestion. I forgot about JC Whitney.

Ken