making your own leaf springs?

[mike5721947]

well im looking at building a tlt based trail truck and have the now discontinued cj8 body sitting in my crawl space and am wanting to build a tube body/cage off of it and use leaf springs on it. (the cj8's were full leaf spring suspensions) but am wondering how i can make leafsprings. (i dont use ebay, so dont tell me to find bruiser ones) plus i dont think using parts that could be used to rebuild a great truck by someone else.

i know i need to use spring steel (is there a way to make it or what?)

and i have fairly good metal working skills.

 

[Frkan]

you can buy jugg springs on tower.

I know that you can use a pull starter metal to make them.

 

[mike5721947]

should i get
tamiya knight hauler spring bag
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXGEN2&P=7or get 2 sets of jugg springs
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXNM39&P=7

its probly going to be fairly heavy (for a tlt) as its going to be a tube chassis and such.

 

[rcbif]

jugg springs arent a bad price, I'd go with them