Derick
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Hey all, so I'm trying to get by another 6-8 months on the 2500. I had a clunking in the rear end and took it to my [relatively new to me] mechanic. I'd like to get your opinion on this and a break down of what he said.
"You need both rear leaf spring assemblies. All the spacers are gone, and theyre slapping together and they should be solid"
So bit of background, I had him replace the body mount bushings a few months ago. The shocks are 4 years old at this point, and he did say that the front left shock, a bilstein 4600, is shot as well. As well as my rear bearings.
Ok, so the truck is 202k right now. The bearings, well I've never done them in my 70k of ownership...so I have to assume theyre factory. So those dont bother me. The bilstein failing at 4 years seems odd, but its not too expensive or time consuming to replace. My biggest concern (and cost) is the failure of these leaf spring packs. I dont do a LOT of heavy hauling. Most I do is take my enclose 12ft trailer with my goldwing in the back. That's about it, adn even then its only gone a max of like 600 miles in a weekend. I was actually hoping to to haul down to TN and back, twice, within a week, so about 1k miles....just to see if it could do it. I'm pretty confident it would be fine.
Anyhow, what's your take here? Springs aint cheap, shipping those springs aint cheap either....can they be rebuilt, or is this just a maintenance item at 202k?
"You need both rear leaf spring assemblies. All the spacers are gone, and theyre slapping together and they should be solid"
So bit of background, I had him replace the body mount bushings a few months ago. The shocks are 4 years old at this point, and he did say that the front left shock, a bilstein 4600, is shot as well. As well as my rear bearings.
Ok, so the truck is 202k right now. The bearings, well I've never done them in my 70k of ownership...so I have to assume theyre factory. So those dont bother me. The bilstein failing at 4 years seems odd, but its not too expensive or time consuming to replace. My biggest concern (and cost) is the failure of these leaf spring packs. I dont do a LOT of heavy hauling. Most I do is take my enclose 12ft trailer with my goldwing in the back. That's about it, adn even then its only gone a max of like 600 miles in a weekend. I was actually hoping to to haul down to TN and back, twice, within a week, so about 1k miles....just to see if it could do it. I'm pretty confident it would be fine.
Anyhow, what's your take here? Springs aint cheap, shipping those springs aint cheap either....can they be rebuilt, or is this just a maintenance item at 202k?
