I'm trying to get a handle on exactly what rate my rear leaf spring pack is and while I've got things semi apart thought that it would be a good time to do this exercise.
My thoughts on doing it are to put a jack on top of a set of bathroom scales and wind it up so as to compress the leaf pack and measure the kgs ( to be converted to pounds ) required to compress the spring pack.
I talked to my mechanic about it yesterday and his thoughts were to maybe wind the jack up so as to compress the spring pack 1" then reset to zero and wind it a further 1" then take the reading.
Has anyone got some informed input on this? Do I need to compress just 1" or should I be going further?
He was also concerned about the car lifting up as I compress the spring pack but after having a trial run and compressing the springs a good 3-4 inches the car wasn't moving ( incidentally the scales were reading just under 90kgs )
Cheers
Dave