Delica Canada | Mitsubishi Van Club

Hey Folks,

Does anyone knows the spring rate for the L400 LWB. As the spring right now are good but when under load I loose almost 3''. Because the plan is to camperize the van and put long range full tank, personnal stuff, food, I estimate to close to 500kilo. So I basically need some new springs in the back and for that If I can get a idea of what it is right now, I could do some maths and have some custom made or find some on trucks around.

The folks from the UK have this imcomplete post but it's a starter.

http://www.mdocuk.co.uk/forums/viewtopi ... bf561871b3

Thanks!
Antoine & Mr. Pistachio

I plan to install airbags in my sisters L400 in the rear for this reason. Sometimes unloaded, sometime loaded up to 500kg's.

Hey Jesse,

What kind of system are you looking at?

Antoine

unsure as of yet. Need to check the ID of the rear coils and height.

Hello - reviving this post....

I have a L400 LWB and am having the same sag problem with all the camping gear and bed frame in my Deli. So now on the larger bumps I am knocking the bottom of my shocks!

Anyone know of a good spring that should nicely retrofit into the rear suspension? And any suggestion where to find it?

Chris

You can put in Lovell's with minor mod. The spring needs to be cut down to the shape of the stock one.

I would prefer airbags like these

http://www.truckspring.com/suspension-p ... 60747.aspx

Those are for the springs out of a Mitsu montero. Close to an L400 but not quite. You'd have to measure the ID / height of the stock spring both compressed and extended(drive one wheel up a ramp).

http://project-jk.com/jeep-jk-write-ups ... n-write-up

Thanks Jesse for the quick reply.

Do you have any more info on the Lovell's? Parts number or associated vehicle to reference? Maybe the best location to find one? I am in the USA so any extra info would be great.

I am concerned about the airbags - it was an option I considered but I have been councelled that they might pinch and bust???

Chris

Chris the issue you will run into with the Lovell's is that it will lift the rear about 2.5-3" inches above stock height. You would need spacers to drop the rear sway bar down and the rear brake bias booster up.

Spacers + springs will run you close to $6-700 whereas the airbags you can use in the stock springs and it will cost you between $1-200.

Hey,

So I've put the Lovell's on my L400 and I'm quite happy with it. I bought it from : http://www.kollarracingproducts.com/servlet/StoreFront and got the RFR-20HD

Antoine

Hey Antoine,
I contacted them as well, the shipping was way more than the springs to the point where I had to reconsider, Can you share some details on cost and how you had them shipped? I am looking at some different options which I will post in a seperate thread. Also, how was the install? much modification?

Cheers
Jason

Shipping them into Canada from US/overseas is expensive.

As a reference, I had two sets of springs shipped from Australia. The springs cost $450 and the shipping for all four springs came out to $840 (customs nailed it) and taxes/duty.

What Antoine did and others is go down to the US and pick them up there.

You still have to pay duty (6.1%) and provincial taxes when bringing it into Canada as it was not made in the USA.