I had a long chat with the person who deals with them in Bangalore and here is the summary:
- They can fabricate as per your suspension needs
- soft: for regular road usage -- a replacement for the stock leaf setup
- stiff: this is for folks who go rallying etc.
The 'soft' ones are available of the shelf, where as the 'stiff' ones have a lead time of
2 months.
- They don't advise to put thesein the front, as for some reason there seems to be a wobble in few vehicles where they have put it. They want to investigate this and fully test it out before recommending it for the front of the vehicle. They don't want to recommend/sell for the front just for the sake of it.
- However, if someone insists they will fabricate as per requirement
- These have been tested extensively and for past 4 years these are in use in various vehicles. Absolutely NO complaint so far. He even mentioned that many Ford Endeavors sold by Lathangi get this setup done.
- He mentioned that it has enough flex & even somehat similar to wringing of clothes type of flex is possible and the setup won't fail/break
- In off-road, even if hits a rock etc, it will not break/fail. At most, if it is hit by a razor sharp thing(maybe a razor sharp rock/edge), it might get bruised/defect -- but that also he said should not happen as per his experience. Even in that case he mentioned free replacement.
- I have asked him if he can bring his Gypsy/MM's that have this setup to some of the OTR's that we do. That way we can test/see it in off-road action and then come to some conclusion on how it is shaping up. He is ok with that.
Cheers,