Plymouth arrow truck front springs help

[geezer101]

Gen 2 truck springs will swap in. Looks like your whole front end is due to be rebuilt (the dust boots on the ball joints look messed up) If you get into a JY hunting for parts, compare the front stabiliser bar from a Gen 2 with yours. Gen 1 trucks had 2 different thickness stabilisers. If yours is the thin one it's worth swapping it (take the 'D' bushes and mounting hardware from the donor)

Spring removal isn't a difficult job. Remove the brake caliper and hang it up out of the way - this will reduce unsprung weight and add clearance to work with. Drop the shock absorber out. Disconnect the stabiliser link to the control arms so you don't have to fight them during the process. Keep the body/frame supported as is, place a jack and blocks of wood under the lower control arm and support it, undo the pivot pin and knock it out of the frame, then lower the control arm and remove the spring from it's perch. Install is a reversal of the process.

*I'd have new suspension hardware waiting to go in - control arm bushes, radius rod bushes, ball joints, stabiliser link ends, tie rod ends (maybe new shocks) etc. Now would be the time to replace everything while it's apart (just my opinion...)

**question - there's a gusset and some welding on the steering center drag link. What's going on there (OOC)?

[jagco1]

Gen 2 truck springs will swap in. Looks like your whole front end is due to be rebuilt (the dust boots on the ball joints look messed up) If you get into a JY hunting for parts, compare the front stabiliser bar from a Gen 2 with yours. Gen 1 trucks had 2 different thickness stabilisers. If yours is the thin one it's worth swapping it (take the 'D' bushes and mounting hardware from the donor)

Spring removal isn't a difficult job. Remove the brake caliper and hang it up out of the way - this will reduce unsprung weight and add clearance to work with. Drop the shock absorber out. Disconnect the stabiliser link to the control arms so you don't have to fight them during the process. Keep the body/frame supported as is, place a jack and blocks of wood under the lower control arm and support it, undo the pivot pin and knock it out of the frame, then lower the control arm and remove the spring from it's perch. Install is a reversal of the process.

*I'd have new suspension hardware waiting to go in - control arm bushes, radius rod bushes, ball joints, stabiliser link ends, tie rod ends (maybe new shocks) etc. Now would be the time to replace everything while it's apart (just my opinion...)

**question - there's a gusset and some welding on the steering center drag link. What's going on there (OOC)?

Thanks for the info, sorry a little late on responding. I like to have about 2 inches of ground clearance for the front. For speed bumps.
. I will start pulling this part soon.