Hystee springs.

[101 Ron]

I have been in contact with Paul at Hystee.
He is thinking of producing more 101 springs.
One set of springs at current estimates will be 780 euro.
I figure that it will workout at $2000 by the time there landed in Aust.
Someone may be able to work it out better than me.
It would have to be done as two separate orders to advoid import tax....ie two springs per order.
It sounds OK to me as no one wants to make these locally and the price would be dearer anyhow.
The nearest thing I could find locally to fit a 101 is the rear springs from a Transet van or Ford F100 rear and I have not done the exact home work.
Ron

[101RRS]

I am actually happy with the ride and handling of the standard springs.

Garry

[roverrescue]

"no one wants to make these locally and the price would be dearer anyhow."

A few years ago Brad at Cairns Springworks made from scratch a set of triple axle trailer leaf springs for me.

The existings were not a standard rating or standard width spring (ala ALKO) and as such if I had bought "standard springs" I would have needed to modify the rockers and mounts. Or alternatively buy a complete triple axle ALKO setup with new rockers and mounts and bolt this to the trailer.

Brad made up the 6 spring sets for less then half the price of the commercial ALKO triple axle set. Beautiful workmanship easy to deal with.

I cant imagine he would charge you 2 gorillas to scratch build four springs to whatever specs you wanted. Worth a phone call????

Steve

[101 Ron]

The springs are a twin leaf parabolic.
The standard springs give poor flex at the rear and are designed for military type overloads, not civie type loads.

[PeterP]

My Hystee springs cost $1000US from GBR in the US back in June '09 with the poly bushes so looks like I got a great deal.
The ride went from back-breaking truck to normal 4x4, huge difference.

[Volkov]

I am looking at getting new springs for my 101. I am only 27 but I feel like I have arthritis in the spine after any off roading in the 101. Did Hystee get another batch of 101 springs in?

[101RRS]

I am looking at getting new springs for my 101. I am only 27 but I feel like I have arthritis in the spine after any off roading in the 101. Did Hystee get another batch of 101 springs in?

The 101 is a great vehicle - I am a lot, lot, lot older and have arthritis and I find it great - however when I got my vehicle it took a long time for my rear end to get used to the ride - that was on the standard seats but lots of padding on my rear end helped.

As I said in an earlier post I am not certain the hystee springs will be a big help in this regard but certainly look as if they would help with suspension flexibility.

I cannot help with your specific question but I am sure someone will be able to answer your question.

Welcome to AULRO and keep us informed of you 101 adventures.

Cheers

Garry

[101 Ron]

I have not chased up Hystee.
he was waiting to get 15 orders before producing some more springs.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

are the Hystee leaves true parabolic with thinner metal at each end?

[isuzurover]

"no one wants to make these locally and the price would be dearer anyhow."

A few years ago Brad at Cairns Springworks made from scratch a set of triple axle trailer leaf springs for me.

The existings were not a standard rating or standard width spring (ala ALKO) and as such if I had bought "standard springs" I would have needed to modify the rockers and mounts. Or alternatively buy a complete triple axle ALKO setup with new rockers and mounts and bolt this to the trailer.

Brad made up the 6 spring sets for less then half the price of the commercial ALKO triple axle set. Beautiful workmanship easy to deal with.

I cant imagine he would charge you 2 gorillas to scratch build four springs to whatever specs you wanted. Worth a phone call????

Steve

101 springs are tapered "single leaf"* springs - so are expensive to produce because they are hot rolled to produce the taper. Only a few spring works are set up to do this, most buy in their leaf blanks AFAIK?

* Note that single leaf springs is the engineering term, instead of the (somewhat erroneous) term "parabolic" springs commonly in use. They are termed single leaf as each leaf acts independently (i.e. interleaf friction is almost 0).

An alternate idea...
Why not remove the 2nd leaf from each pack and fit air springs??? These could be attached with bolt-in mounts for those not wishing to modify the chassis.

The only potential issue with doing this could be increased axle tramp, however that could be solved with a tramp bar if it is an issue (again bolt-on if desired).