Fabricating leaf spring hangers

[greenz97]

Hey I am planning on doing a sas on my truck and was looking at the different options for buying the leaf spring hangers. I noticed the cheapest i could find for front and rear hangers was about $550-$600. I get why they charge this much with the time and labor spent perfecting it. but I cant help but think I could weld together 4 brackets and buy some bolts for far less than $600. Does anyone know if there are designs online or if i would just have to figure out the dimensions myself. Thanks

 

[bretcopsey]

I’ll start off by saying I know nothing about SAS and was surprised by the cost you were seeing thinking why would leaf spring hangers cost so much. So I did a little online searching to see what was involved and found a few complete kits in the $500-600 range.

I did find this company selling their front and rear mounts available separately. But I agree, for anyone with some basic fabrication and welding skills along with the tools it would seem this could be built for less as a diy.

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For example, using these pre-fabbed brackets and combining with some 2x3 or 2x4 tubing could result in a similarly functional front mount. Possibly a second set for rear hangers, along with some shackles?

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[b454rat]

Don’t really need to get crazy fancy with hangers. I think DIY4X has mounts that have an adjustable spring location, could use 4 or those. Front would be simple, rear would just take some fab’n. But, for 5-600 bucks, with either ORD or DIY4X, both are worth the money, and are very well built….

 

[greenz97]

considering the DIY4X ones are almost 700 dollars I guess ORD is my best option

 

[b454rat]

Wow, raised the price....Let's Go Brandon....

 

[greenz97]

Bringing back this thread with another question because a SAS fell off my list of projects. Is it fine to use a rear hanger with the shackle? I have a buddy with a square body and he had some extra hangers and they fit on the frame rail where you would need the for the rear hanger mounts on the front.

 

[Hobagger]

Not sure exactly what you have going on but I bought some 2” DOM that fit a yj jeep shackle bushing. Then a piece of 3/8” x 2 1/2 flat bar it’s for a &3 jeep scrambler. Put in a bunch of pictures of what I have going on. The smaller one was the first one I boxed in and when I took it off it was falling apart. I believe it’s cast or heat treated. So there you go. Not sure if it helps but I figured I would throw it out there.