Suspension with leaf springs like a truck?

anyone remember me? lol its like i died. anyways im getting back into off road mowers and i was thinking of making my own rear suspension. chain drive rear end. i have some old vintage snowmobiles kicking around with the leaf spring front suspension for the skis, thinking of how I could make this work on a mower...any ideas everyone? for the front i was thinking ifs off a quad or maybe like a front axle with the same leaf spring setup i want some ideas guys thanks

Depends how freaky you wanna go, or if you just wanna build an "atv" in a mower dress.

Also depends on what motor you will use, vertical or old snowmobile engines and so on.

Thunderdivine wrote:

Depends how freaky you wanna go, or if you just wanna build an "atv" in a mower dress.

Hey now that hurts - jk


Its like Thunderdivine said its how you want to go and what you have to work with including tools.
To really give some input on how to make the parts go together well be needing some pics of what you got.

muddstir wrote:

Thunderdivine wrote:

Depends how freaky you wanna go, or if you just wanna build an "atv" in a mower dress.

Hey now that hurts - jk


Its like Thunderdivine said its how you want to go and what you have to work with including tools.
To really give some input on how to make the parts go together well be needing some pics of what you got.

Haha that wasn't ment too you nor chopperhed, those are real custom builds.

i was thinking the only leaf spring setup i could see working would be weird, you would have to allow the leaf spring to be able to move side to side and it would be independent suspension for my idea, pretty much an A-arm suspension but replace the coils with leafs:P