Daystar 1.5" rear spacer keep spring in perch?

[tre9er]

My lift plan includes 99 talls in the rear with a 1.5" daystar spacer. I was pricing the spacer when I read one of the Amazon reviews say something like "this is poorly designed and too thin to safely keep the spring in the perch".

Has anyone had this experience or can those of you who have run this spacer please comment on it for me?

TIA.

 

[jakknz]

Did not run that spacer but a 2.5" one. With that being said, it will fit within the spring perch. The only way it will become unsafe/unstable is if you have too much travel in your rear shocks. Say you are rock crawling or something and your axle on that side is hyperextended there is a small possibility that the spring could pop out.

I doubt that for 2 reasons - 1) a spacer effectively puts the spring under more compression giving you the lift it does so that in and of itself increases spring (coil) travel before the hyperextension. 2) you would have other many other things break prior to extending your axle out that far like sway bar end links brake line etc.

At first glance I was like WTF when looking at mine but I have extended the axle far down even with a broken sway bar end link and mine has been good. I would reason that the one inch difference between ours would not be all that different.

All in all, if you go that hard offroad for it to happen then a spacer was a poor choice to begin with.

 

[tre9er]

All in all, if you go that hard offroad for it to happen then a spacer was a poor choice to begin with.

I like going down farm roads and such. Last weekend we went down a road that was "closed", "open to local traffic only", out in the country. It was completely torn out, the pavement was, so it was just dirt/mud. It had rained the night before, so there was some mud, but never even needed 4WD.

The only time I'd end up "crawling" would be if we were exploring and ran into some small rocks/creek beds, etc. I don't do any technical stuff, there are no mountains nearby, etc.

I want clearance, mostly for snow, mud, and uneven terrain, as well as looks, but I'm not a rock crawler.

 

[GhostRing]

Funny, I myself just read that same review looking for an interim rear leveling option.
I really believe reviews like that need to be taken with a grain of salt. Companies like Daystar would not get far if a simple spacer could not be correctly designed. User error
is a MUCH more likely culprit...

That said, I do not agree with spacers creating more compression. They space. That's it.
Imagine the spring standing on the garage floor. Add say, a toolbox on top. That's the
compressed state. Now slide a repair manual between them. Is the spring under more
compression (realistically)? Nope, toolbox is simply higher than before.

 

[tre9er]

Imagine the spring standing on the garage floor. Add say, a toolbox on top. That's the
compressed state. Now slide a repair manual between them. Is the spring under more
compression (realistically)? Nope, toolbox is simply higher than before.

True, but in your example I'd replace repair manual with "chunk of styrofoam" because it's weight compared to the weight of the toolbox is nearly nil, thus adding practically nothing to the compression. But the idea is the same.

And for the record, I didn't necessarily believe that review, but doesn't seem that too many people run spacers here, and I wondered if there HAD been bad experiences.

 

[jakknz]

Funny, I myself just read that same review looking for an interim rear leveling option.
I really believe reviews like that need to be taken with a grain of salt. Companies like Daystar would not get far if a simple spacer could not be correctly designed. User error
is a MUCH more likely culprit...

That said, I do not agree with spacers creating more compression. They space. That's it.
Imagine the spring standing on the garage floor. Add say, a toolbox on top. That's the
compressed state. Now slide a repair manual between them. Is the spring under more
compression (realistically)? Nope, toolbox is simply higher than before.

You're right.