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Design Compliments of Marshall Casale This is my design for a coil spacer, and I am granting anybody free use of these designs and instructions. Ok, enough said. This is a cool little piece I cooked up for 20 bucks. This spacer is very similar to the one produced by allprooffroad.com, but it is converted to American standard sizes. Metric tubing is hard to get a hold of at good prices. I basically called Doug at Custom Steel in Madison, PA and asked him to cut me: - (4) 4.500 OD 2.875 ID 1/4" thick plates. Price for material was $15.00 and $5.00 for cutting it to size and cutting the plates. To drill the mounting holes it is a 4.10 dia. configuration. So the centers of the 3 holes are just evenly spaced on the 4.10 dia. circle. I made the holes 3/8 so I had minor margin for error. The top bolts are hard to tighten because they are in the suspension housing, the easy fix is to weld the bolts into the top side. The final touch is to shave the inside edge of the tube for clearance where the shock mounts to the spacer. The reason is a raised ridge on the top of the spring retainer. If you want to make a larger spacers just lengthen the tubing. 3.5" is the max a toy front-end can handle, but I really wouldn't go past 2". Installation: Just follow this link: http://www.allprooffroad.com/tacospacer.html (When I called All Pro, they gave me the secret to installation. So I am passing it on to you with this link.) There is no way to install these with out following All Pro's instructions, I tried...
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