So who is running orbit eyes and are they worth it. Also has anyone run them with deavers. I am going to be getting a set of deavers soon and am curious if they will futher enhance the springs performance.
Also if they are worth I assume it is best to run they front and back? My truck is trail use only.
I have them, I love them. big problem with mine is that when AOR put them together and installed them they forgot to locktite them, that came from Randy at AOR. discovered on trail and only way to fix was punch and hammer. sadly this tore up the starter threads. when, as per Randy, I loosened the collars to locktite (which they should have done) the threads on the collars got tore up. I send the leafs back to AOR for rework-de-arch front springs, move center pin and legthen the tail section of rear springs. AOR did nothing with the orbit eyes, as matter of fact, Kevin (owner) quoted me ~$150 for the rework of the springs and he will do whatever he can to get cost down. well over $400 later I get my springs back with the same tore up orbits.
I'm looking to replace the orbits with currie johhny joints. I will lose some degrees of travel compared to the orbits but I expect all the problems to be gone.
now, with AOR's lack of customer service I am still on the fence about getting orbits and trying again. truely ashame after spending over $1300 for the leafs mounts etc.
and not even 5K miles since my SAS. Shame since Randy and Kevin are nice guys, Kevin needs to learn customer service. AND I do not beat on my truck that hard.
AOR also has lots of poor/bad post on pirate board.
sorry so long but other club memeber should be aware. IMO and from my experence stay away from AOR.
still haven't heard anything back from kevin, owner of AOR. I'm thinking his lack of response is his answer to resolve this issue.
So once again kevin proves he can not/refuses to provide any type of decent customer service.
AOR's name is already trash on priate4x4.com and I'll addanother plus the other toyota and offroad forums.
Is it possible to put orbit eyes in Deavers? Or any other brand leaf spring for that matter? I guess I've always just assumed they were an AOR exclusive (I can't remember who it is that manufactures their springs).
you'll need to have the main leaf and maybe 2nd remade, if not being made. check their site it has the diam. you'l need for the springs. they can go in any spring as long as made correctly. AOR uses Alcan.
I"d strongly suggest before you order thru AOR, wait and see how they take care of the problems with my orbit eyes-that is their fault and they created for me. And now seems like they wont't stand behind their products. IF they don't fix this issue for me I'll go with Currie enterprises johnnyjoints. BTW the johnny joints are ~1/2 the cost of orbits. And better engineered IMO. not prone to come undone, like the orbits
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