Source for new or rearched rear P15 springs?

[knuckleharley]

Any of you guys have a good source for new or rearched rear leaf springs for my 48 Ply coupe? I'm driving this thing now,but being bounced around like a BB in a boxcar.

[Normspeed]

Is it hitting the snubbers?

[BobT-47P15]

I think one place mentioned in the past is Espo. There are some previous

threads about springs......you might see if you can do a forum search to

find them.

[Tony Cipponeri]

Look around locally for a spring shop. Tony C

[falconvan]

Kanters has them, I believe.

[knuckleharley]

Is it hitting the snubbers?

Yes. I thought I was making progress when I pulled the air shocks from it and replaced them with new gas shocks,but I was going backwards. Come to find out the air shocks where the only things holding the body off the tires when hitting big bumps. It also rides bad now.

[knuckleharley]

I think one place mentioned in the past is Espo. There are some previous

threads about springs......you might see if you can do a forum search to

find them.

Thanks,I'll do that.

[knuckleharley]

Look around locally for a spring shop. Tony C

There was a really good spring shop I was planning on using about 50 miles from here,but they have since gone out of business. I did find another one in the same city,but I know nothing about the quality of their work. Not to mention that the guy wants $275 for what he is calling "new 8 leaf spring sets for your car". I haven't counted them,but I don't think P-15's have 8 leafs per side.

I found a place up on Pa,but they want $330 plus shipping.

Yes,I do have other spring sets under parts cars that I could use,but I already have used springs under my car and don't want to replace one problem with another just like it.

[knuckleharley]

Kanters has them, I believe.

Yes,they do,but they want $575 a pair.

[BobT-47P15]

Don Coatney purchased the Espo springs, as I recall. He may have more

info on them....and perhaps what the cost was.

Just found this......James Douglas has used Eaton Detroit.......I copied his comment to post here.....

"I have used Eaton Detroit Springs (Opened 1937) and have been happy with them. They make their springs and can tell you the blueprint load and rate. In the case where HD springs were offered, they can tell you the load and rate of both the standard and HD so you can pick what you want."

[knuckleharley]

I followed Bob T's advise to do a archive search,and found a thread on new springs from various suppliers. Looks like I will be going with J.C.Whitney springs. They have a unbeatable deal with a set of new springs for $240 including shipping.

Thanks to all that have responded.

[Don Coatney]

I followed Bob T's advise to do a archive search,and found a thread on new springs from various suppliers. Looks like I will be going with J.C.Whitney springs. They have a unbeatable deal with a set of new springs for $240 including shipping.

Thanks to all that have responded.

Post the results when they arrive and you have installed them. I chose Espo but they cost much more than JC Whitney.

[knuckleharley]

Post the results when they arrive and you have installed them. I chose Espo but they cost much more than JC Whitney.

I sure will,but there were a couple of people on that archive thread that bought the Whitney springs,and said they installed easily and worked good.

[James_Douglas]

I use http://www.eatonsprings.com.

They have the original blueprints, have been around forever, and supply many of the resellers.

James

[knuckleharley]

I use http://www.eatonsprings.com.

They have the original blueprints, have been around forever, and supply many of the resellers.

James

A set of rear leaf springs from them for a P-15 is $330,plus shipping.

[Plymouthy Adams]

For what it is worth...was looking in my VERY old Plydo catalog...he was listing rear springs for 170 per side...

[knuckleharley]

OK,guys,I just ordered two new (not rearched) rear leaf springs for my P-15 coupe from J.C. Whitney. They are having a 15% off sale this weekend,so my total for both springs including shipping and insurance was $239. Your own total would vary depending on where you live.

Whitney says the Plymouth,Dodge,and DeSoto use the same rear springs,so you other Mopar guys have this option also.

The bad thing is the springs are "on backorder",and won't be shipped for 3 weeks or so. Which is typical for Whitney.

My cheapest option other than Whitney was a local (50 miles away) spring shop that would rearch my springs for $275. This would have meant I would have had to make two trips up there. One to drop the springs off and one to pick them up. It would have also mean that my coupe would have been immobilized in the yard until they were done,and would stay immobilized until the weather was right and I felt good enough to put them back in.

Ordering from Whitney means that my car stays complete and drivable until I have the new springs in my hands and am ready to change them.

And,of course,I will get a few bucks back on my worn out springs when I haul them to the crusher in trunk of my old 84 Impala.

I will do another update when they come in and I install them.

[58prostreet]

Call Spring Menders on Raby Rd. in Norfolk...757-459-4440. They may be able to help.

Bob

[knuckleharley]

Call Spring Menders on Raby Rd. in Norfolk...757-459-4440. They may be able to help.

Bob

Thanks Bob,but I already ordered the springs from JC Whitney.

Do you live near Norfolk?

[49plymouthdotcom]

Thanks Bob,but I already ordered the springs from JC Whitney.

Do you live near Norfolk?

Hopefully you don't need them anytime soon. I ordered mine 7/22 and I'm still waiting. Estimated delivery is now pushed to 9/22.

http://www430.pair.com/p15d24/mopar_forum/showthread.php?t=10440

[58prostreet]

I live in Va. Beach...Don't u live in Moyock?

Bob

[knuckleharley]

Hopefully you don't need them anytime soon. I ordered mine 7/22 and I'm still waiting. Estimated delivery is now pushed to 9/22.

http://www430.pair.com/p15d24/mopar_forum/showthread.php?t=10440

They are now saying projected shipping date is 29 Sept.

[knuckleharley]

I live in Va. Beach...Don't u live in Moyock?

Bob

No,I live in Coinjock.

Arthur

[knuckleharley]

J.C.Whitney sent me a email a couple of days ago to tell me they were canceling my order for new rear springs for my P-15 "due to unavailability and unknown wait for them to become available."

It also gives me the option of keeping the order live and being notified if and when they ever become available,and that's probably what I will do because J.C.Whitney charges about half of what everybody else charges for the same spring sets. Which is probably why they are unavailable. The people that manufacture them are probably selling all they make at close to retail and don't have any production runs left over to wholesale out to Whitney.

Anyway,I will do another update if and when they ever tell me the springs are available.

Special thanks to FRANKIE47 for telling me how to find this thread.

[Frank Elder]

You are most welcome, it is more fun than being the one who asks questions all the time.