Yeah I had a set of rear leaf springs taken off Marc Stein's Stock Full F150 race truck on my old trail rig. I still have that rig, it currently exists as a dismantled frame and body and pile of parts but I do not believe those springs are still among them. I really liked them but they were not a bolt-in. I had to cut the stock leaf spring hangers off the Bronco's frame and replace them with F150 ones because they are wider leafs. I also had to move the perches on the axle tube. The other problem is that they are quite a bit longer than the EB springs but most of that extra length is toward the rear of the leaf pack. The distance from the center pin to the forward eye isn't that different than an EB but at the rear, the hanger has to attach to the frame right at the very end where the fishmouth is. You have to either run a stubby rear bumper or fabricate a full width one with clearance for the shackle to swing. And that's just to keep it at the stock wheelbase. On the positive side, the springs performed VERY nicely. Of course I had to remove a couple of leaves due to the lighter weight of the Bronco versus the F150 race truck. I just did trial and error with a few different leaf combos until I got it where I liked it. The springs provided great vertical travel and great articulation, rode like butter and soaked up the whoops nicely with a pair of remote-res Bilstein 7100s. Best of all, there was no axle wrap/wheel hop. I figured that was due to the wide leafs being better suited to controlling axle twist versus the narrower EB leafs. Overall that Bronco handled very well in all terrains, with that setup in the rear and the WAH in the front. Especially at speed, doing 4-wheel drifts through the curves in the sand washes out at Ocotillo Wells
Yeah I did. It's still on my SmugMug if you want to download the hi-res version of it or any of my other pics from that trip: https://dustysharp.smugmug.com/So-Cal-Broncos/2003/Lockwood-Miller-Jeep-Trail
