Topic: Rears Up Front Problem

[1Bad4Runner]

I have an 89 4Runner with rears up front. The problem is that when I hit the brakes it dives down a lot and also when I hit a corner with it the truck sways way to much.
My leaves are 6 leaf packs. 2 toy mains, 2 secondary leaves, and 2 3rd toy leaves. Should I be doing something different? When I made a 7 leaf pack with 3 mains the truck was way to high. Do you think I should use 3 mains, 2 secondary leaves and 1 3rd leaf?

I really dont want to run a sway bar anymore, should I add some half ton leaves in with the pack instead of all toy leaves?

[79coyotefrg]

yea  get some F150 leaves,  and  run the top 2 main leafs,  then a f150 , from there on mix and match your leafs so the length steps down on each spring, 6 leaves should be enough,     the truck is going to  dive a bit ,but thats what shocks are for.

a truck that offroads good  is going to act like you discribed,   the better it does offroad  the worse it will handle on road,  you just have to deal with it or make your springs stiffer  so the dont flex so well 

[MiniSimp]

To me it sounds like you need better shocks.

[1Bad4Runner [OP]]

Thanks Coyote! I know that they will act a little shitty on the road and actually it seems to drive a little better with the 6th leaf and no sway bar than it ran with 5 leaves and a swaybar, so I am a little happier with it. I think I may lower my front hangers and add the 7th leaf to the pack to stiffin it up a little more and not have it to high.

Hey MiniSimp, I think you might be right.. I have bottomed out my shocks before, but they seemed to still work fine, maybe I did mess them up. I'll go pull them off today and see if they have good compression.

[1Bad4Runner [OP]]

Well, I went out and checked the shocks out and they seem to be fine. They are hard to push in all the way and hard to pull out all the way. I am running BDS 14" shocks, do you think these have any quality to them? or might they be my problem?