Summit leaf springs

[mrbill426]

Thanks for that challengermaniac.  I would have mine re-arched but they are rust pitted and the spring shop guy said that is that path to cracking during or after the process.     Sucks to me me, I know.  Were the ones you bought the baseline Summit "natural" springs like these?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-7074CH/

Here's the deal, I bought some leaf springs from Summit, installed them and found my rearend sagging (on the car).  Then I looked the springs over and found the little stamp------------ "made in China"!   Took them off and returned them to Summit and simply had the original leafs re-arched which turned out to be the best solution.

[challengermaniac]

I looked in all of my online emails and could not find the corespondence with Summit or the part number.  I remember them being heavy duty springs & cost just about what you show.  All of this took place in 2009, so maybe their product is better now, although I would simply ask where the springs are manufactured and if they say "china", I would walk away due to inferior metal and manufacturing.

[mrob]

mrbill,
I've heard pretty good things about the leaf springs from this company: http://www.johnrspring.com/leafsprings.htm
I've also heard that their prices aren't that bad. Just throwing it out as another source.

[72bluNblu]

Anything from the dealers would be Mopar Performance stuff, and all of those springs are made in Mexico and are known to sag quite a bit from the initial ride height. I still think they end up sitting pretty close to factory height, but that was pretty low. The XHD's definitely don't raise the back end up.