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After a offroading trip, i found that i managed to break the front passenger leaf spring and bend the other. It would figure these broke a few months after replacing the bushings with poly. But at least that meant it would be easy to disassemble.
This factory suspension is a very poor design. It only had about 2 inches of up travel before it hits the bump stop. The leaf spring will naturally resist twisting but while used in TTB axle is forced to twist making it always binding. The beams on the F250 are shorter than F150/Bronco meaning it will try and twist more for the same amount of wheel travel.
I tried to call a few places and the price for springs locally was very high. Online the springs were cheaper but the shipping was very high. Doing 2 inch lift springs was stupid expensive, it would have been cheaper doing a 6 inch lift than a 2 inch.
I finally decided that i would order my leaf springs from General Spring KC as recommended by many people. Because shipping was high, I decided to order 3 pairs of leaf springs and have them freight shipped.
Because the truck only has 2 inches of up travel before hitting the bump stop and lifted leafs are very expensive, i decided to try F350 solid axle leaf springs. they are about 1.5 inches taller and the spring rate was similar to my stock leafs.
My F250 is a light duty and used code 5 front leaf springs which are unavailable. The next leaf spring to use would have been significantly stiffer than stock.
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