Got my u-bolt plates in today from TONYP and man, what can I say that these plates are pure awesome fabbed pieces! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
I saw Petes (Yunit) passenger side plate Tony made for him and sent e-mails to him to make me a pair of plates as I wanted on for both sides. I had explained to him that I had a 4 degree shim sandwiched between the leaf springs and the 1" zero-rates. The u-bolt and stud nuts were not sitting square to the plates, so Tony machined 2 plates with the 4 degree taper into them and now the nuts sit sqaure to the plates. No worries of broken studs due to stress from not sitting sqaurely.
Below are 2 pics of the 6" springs, 4 degree shim, 1" zero-rates and the factory plates all tightened down. If you were to see it up close, you would see the bottom of the nuts were not seated all the way down.
Now here are 3 pics of the new plates by TONYP. These will allow the nuts to sit flat on the plates and therefore remove the stress factor which is popular with D60's and shims.
I will get the new plates on soon and take some new pics to show how the fitment of the nuts go. But until then, thanks to TONYP for his great service and products!!! I am very happy with them and can't wait to fasten them on.
As for prices, I leave that for you to work out with Tony as everybody has different requirements for their trucks. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
I saw Petes (Yunit) passenger side plate Tony made for him and sent e-mails to him to make me a pair of plates as I wanted on for both sides. I had explained to him that I had a 4 degree shim sandwiched between the leaf springs and the 1" zero-rates. The u-bolt and stud nuts were not sitting square to the plates, so Tony machined 2 plates with the 4 degree taper into them and now the nuts sit sqaure to the plates. No worries of broken studs due to stress from not sitting sqaurely.
Below are 2 pics of the 6" springs, 4 degree shim, 1" zero-rates and the factory plates all tightened down. If you were to see it up close, you would see the bottom of the nuts were not seated all the way down.
Now here are 3 pics of the new plates by TONYP. These will allow the nuts to sit flat on the plates and therefore remove the stress factor which is popular with D60's and shims.
I will get the new plates on soon and take some new pics to show how the fitment of the nuts go. But until then, thanks to TONYP for his great service and products!!! I am very happy with them and can't wait to fasten them on.
As for prices, I leave that for you to work out with Tony as everybody has different requirements for their trucks. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
