hey guys.
Been buying up parts to start my sas slowly. Getting close to everything i need to get the axle under the truck and on its own weight. Quick question about leaf choice. I have been looking around and seems like most people are going with the lifted rancho spring pack the 4400##?? whatever. But from what I could tell most of those people are doing sua. I was wondering if you guys thought that a BRAND NEW set of stock waggy springs on a soa setup would be good. I know they are a little softer, ie body roll. but the truck isnt my daily driver anymore so that would be ok. also i am running a 3 in body lift so i will have room i think. i am planning on 35s. what do you think before i go ordering them. I need to make a decision and commit.

Stock waggy leaf packs are great for SOA. You will fit 35s with no problems. You could always add or swap out leafs to adjust the spring rate or add a sway bar if you're that worried.

I'm running 89 stock waggy packs and SOA. I've got 35" tires. If you already have a 3" body lift if you put any lift springs on the front axle you wont be able to safely drive the rig on the road.

There is a guy on another forum who has the 4044's and SOA, he needed like 10 or 12" lift springs out back to even the truck out.

Look on e-bay. I picked up a set of springs for 65+shipping.


BTW- Stock waggy springs are thick and flex really well. What kind of steering are you running?

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BTW- Stock waggy springs are thick and flex really well. What kind of steering are you running?

I have a hybrid highsteer corss over. got the one steering knuckle from reid racing (a division of dedenbaer apparently) and the high steer from parts mike.


I was planning on the stock waggy leaves up front and getting a set of 5.5" lift coils from a bronco in the back. that should level it out right? that is what most pathy guys are doing. like pirateship i think.

5.5" coils out back should be right. I'm not to terribly sure. I'm running 4" lift 47" Chevy springs with 5-1/2 shackles.

I will be changing out the rear spring to 6" lift springs with leafs removed and probably go to a 4" shackle. I have quite decided what I'm going to do out back.

Up front I've got full high-steering. Due to the wag springs being so think I'm running 1" high steer arm spacers and 3/8" spacers on my links.

Since your running crossover steering you might get away without having spacers. I recommend waiting until the axle is under the truck.

This is what $30 used waggys (7 pack) looks like with 35s and NO bl.



I did lower 1" by moving the hanger up after this.

Hey nut, how much body roll do you get? Do the fronts feel a little soft? I've got a set I'm going to do the Xterra with, and the Xterra is a heavy pig. I was thinking about adding 1-2 more relatively flat leaves - no more arch, but to add to the spring rate.

I get allot of body roll. I tried numerous spring/ leaf combos.

This is my currect setup. its quite flat and heavy.



Only fix is a sway bar.
I use the stock one behind the axle.

Going to move it to the front like the pathy one soon.



I have two OEM sway bars on the pathy. Still get little body roll, just no sway.

So it looks like you added two leaves to the stock wag pack, right?

Hows the ride?

Yeah replaced 2 with Nissan thicker ones. Rides good. With pure waggys it would nose dive heavily under braking.

Maybe duel shock set up up front would help. I running procomp ex9000 and they are stiff.

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Maybe duel shock set up up front would help. I running procomp ex9000 and they are stiff.

Nope!



Need a sway bar.

im running the top 2 toyota rears from an 85 toy mixed with the bottom 4 from a 7 leaf waggy pack (minus the overload bottom leaf). pretty stiff on road but flex madly offroad and love to go negative