[dbona2]

looking to put ome 40mm lift springs in the front of my ute its a 81 sierra nt, i rang old mate at arb and he said you cant get them for a ute that old??? the little bit newer narrow tracks would fit yer??


cheers daniel

[tanshi]

yeah they are all the same

[joel]

just buy the shit online what arb?
my experience with a certain arb is they dont know shit from clay.

[dbona2]

thanks for the help

[dbona2]

joel wrote:

just buy the shit online what arb?
my experience with a certain arb is they dont know shit from clay.

yer mate i thought that but didnt know wether maybe they will sag more/faster then the ome ones

what do you reckon?

[tanshi]

personally i wouldnt ever get OMEs again, either kings or EFS are what i would use

[dbona2]

tanshi wrote:

personally i wouldnt ever get OMEs again, either kings or EFS are what i would use

what are they like price wise i got quoted $101 each for a front ome spring? seem a little dear!

[tanshi]

efs would be able the same. pretty much all springs are going to be about that price.

[zooky08]

dbona2 wrote:

tanshi wrote:

personally i wouldnt ever get OMEs again, either kings or EFS are what i would use

what are they like price wise i got quoted $101 each for a front ome spring? seem a little dear!

To dear should be about $80 mark

[dbona2]

is there anywhere else that stocks em that you know of zooky08,

tanshi would efs have better flex qualities?what went wrong with your ome springs??

cheers dan

[tanshi]

my omes, and several others i know of, suffered badly from axle wrap, i have three sets in the space of 3 weeks and folded them into s shapes.

never had those issues with efs

[zooky08]

Actually I just remembered
There is two kind of ome fronts leaf springs
Medium is about $81 and what you got qouted for would be the heavy ones
The medium are the softest spring you can get, so they will sag over time faster then say, efs or kings I would imagine

[BlueSuzy]

Kings are rock hard even with leafs removed. Then axle wrap is a problem in the rear with leafs removed.

[tanshi]

my choice if i was buying off the shelf would be EFS rears and Kings front.

with the weight of the engine, Kings work perfectly

[dbona2]

is hard what i want ??

[dbona2]

where stocks kings? arb?

[303zuke]

zooky08 wrote:

Actually I just remembered
There is two kind of ome fronts leaf springs
Medium is about $81 and what you got qouted for would be the heavy ones
The medium are the softest spring you can get, so they will sag over time faster then say, efs or kings I would imagine

Dbona has said he wants to get harder leaves and take a leaf out for flex. The ride height between OME hard and soft is the same 40mm, so if you take a leaf out of the hard pack, you're left witha soft pack.

Save yourself $40 and get the soft set and don't take out a leaf.

ARB have only told you the springs won't fit an '81 Sierra 'cos that's what their catalog tells them. But the catalog listing is only for 1.3 lt Sierras, which came out in '84. Before that, the u-bolts for 1.0 Sierras and LJs were a smaller size, so ARB used to have a different catalog page for them. The springs will fit from 1974 LJ50 through to 1996 SJ70.