hi estyre,my fathers old 1200 ute was reset at 3inchs,they were flat as,they were done by allsprings in sydney. The ride was a nightmare!
allsprings now wont reset them at 3inches,they recommend setting them at for example 2inches and 1inch lowering block.just some advice
I also tried the reverse eye leafspring way,doesnt work,the eye touches the body where they connect to.
thanks

I will post a pic of the leafs if I can... They just looked odd. Can't get any lower than mine were without removing the stops

I'm with buzz on this one

King Spring, big pricing for their copying efforts :)

The maddat leafs look like the King springs version (king part number DAT-501) and for history sake, king springs probably copied from Jeoff Taylor.
These were made for coupes but should work on other 1200s.
I have a set in my coupe and they are very low, not uncommon to bottom out over big road bumps.
I do have a Hilux diff attached to them which takes up some room.
I will be using these in my circuit car, but suspect the spring rate is way too high for what is really needed.

hi jeff what i have done now and before which works fine

pulled leafs out have taken shortest leaf from another set pulled the center bolt out off leafs grab short leaf sit it on top of spring pack upside down so it arks the opposite direction
then used g clamp and clamp together and put longer bolt in middle to put pack back together

this adds extra leaf which makes a little stiffer if you dont want stiffer dont add extra take shortest one off bottom of pack and invert as you are clamping them together this straightens the leafsprings which lowers the car
never had any problems

bailz, aside from no looking right, how were they botched up? Was it lowered too far?

I had a pair of leads reset... Worst thing I ever did... They botched them up... Don't get my wrong it was dumped but it never looked right underneath. Springs were bending the wrong way lol

going to bump this instead of starting a new thread and also beacuse a question asked in here that wasnt answered is what im actually wanting to ask as well

Are the springs from Mad Dat any good and does anyone on here have them in their utes as im looking at getting the back end of my ute lowered a about 30mm more but i have blocks in it atm and want to try and do it all with springs

Other thought is does anyone know of a good place around South East Melbourne (Cheltenham) area that could set my ones up lower even

Steve

The benefit of flipping eyes is that you lower the car while still having an arch in the springs, if you then reset the leaves lower you will loose some arch but mot as much as without flipped eyes.

I guess the limit depends on how much travel you have before bumpstops come into play.