My Leaf Springs are pretty worn out and my rear shocks. What do you guys recommend doing, should I replace them both OR go with some other type of suspension? I'm open to any ideas b/c I don't have much knowledge with suspensions:confused:

For your leaf springs, give these guys a call:

http://www.eatonsprings.com/

For shocks,..most any good aftermarket shock will work,..KYB's are great for the money.

I don't know much about your goals for the car, but this is a start.

How your going to use the car? And how much money you want to spend?

I'm not going to be racing it on the strip, but I would like it to ride a lot better than it does now b/c when I go over bumps or bridges it's pretty bad. I'm really not sure how much money I want to spend yet, I guess once I start looking at the price of things I'll know. About the KYB Shocks what's a good model or part # to get?

Is there any suspension piece I could swap the leaf springs for?

Cheapest AND easiest thing to do is to put new shocks on her. Just install a set of coil-over, overload springs on the shocks beforehand.

Then just tune your ride height by adjusting the coil-overs....

pdq67

If your getting springs might go for some slide a links too.

Do you have the single leaf springs or multi leaf?
KYB are inexpensive, but on the rough side according to some of our members.
David

Are you running any sort of slapper bars?

A friend of mine was running slapper bars on his single leaf springs. The rubber pad between spring and axle housing was very warn. The slapper bars were cinched up tight to the spring with the snubber pushed hard against the spring. The snubber was not in the spring eye, it was about 7 inches aft of the spring eye.
As an experiment, we took the traction bars off and ran without them. Suddenly it rode like a car again.

With the traction bar pressed up against the spring like that, the car felt like a chuck wagon going over bumps.

Just food for thought I guess.

But if you're running single leafs, I'd just stay with them, use some competition engineering adjustable shocks and some new bushings and pads and I'll bet it is much better.

imho, if it is a street ride and has monoleafs now, stay with the monos, its a "softer" ride.

bilsteins are my shock of choice. more expensive then most but have excellent street ride and handling characteristics.

if you keep the monos and intend to "hit it" every once in awhile, slapper bars will eliminate wheel hop and possible binding. Comp. Engineering's slappers are the better ones on the market. Make sure they have the "J" bolt. if you want to learn more, do a search for slapper bars, there is a ton of info available in past posts.

this set up work well for our '68, 327/330hp. (and the slappers are there 'cause dad knows junior hits it every once in awhile when he's not looking!!)

I have multi leafs. What are slide a links? Would new multi leafs and some coil over shocks be a good choice? Are bilsteins a decent price? I'll look into those slappers. Sorry guys I know little about suspension setups.:o

heres a pic of slide a links
they are under the leaf springs and are fully adjustable.
http://webpages.charter.net/harrycoon/100_0157%20(Small).JPG

for some reason the pic didn't load it just had a red X on it:confused:

It works for me.

bilsteins run in the $70 to $80 range

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It might just be my work computer, I'll look at it when I get home tonight! Thanks!:cool:

I can see the pic now! What is a good brand of coil over shocks?