Spring ride

Spring ride as in 4 spring Reyco or Hendrickson walking beam?

 

As long as it has an air ride seat, you should be good.
I drove one with only a spring seat and had to wear a kidney belt.

 

Don't know about prices now but 8 years ago I bought a complete cutoff from a wrecking yard for $2500. Not sure on labour as I did all the work myself but it'd probably cost a couple thousand in labour to swap suspensions over if this was a truck that is worth doing it to.

 

I won’t touch that project for a 1000 dollars I know from experience what it would take to do that more like 3500 or 4000
I would just get a good Volvo cut off and cut it it in half it would be faster and cheaper caus your gonna have another 1000 or more in parts like axle seats and new U bolts swapping the suspension

 

Don't need to disassemble it, just chop the old axles out, roll the brand-used cutoff and suspension under, drill the rails and bolt it up. Did mine myself on a gravel driveway with a pair of come-alongs and a hand drill over a couple days.

I do agree though, it'd be a cleaner job to just graft the new cutoff onto the truck. I did the swap because I wanted fresh rails from the cab back with no extra holes.

 

That Volvo spring ride wouldn’t be too bad on the highway but most likely would suck doing local unless you’re hooked to the same trailer a lot.. city trucks without a air suspension dump are a lot of extra cranking on trailer to match fifth wheel height.

 

Your funeral. You'll be tired of it in 15 minutes. The WS in the avatar, an '82 had the Whites version of the Reyco. I'd have to think an '89 W/V/GMC would still have White suspensions. At the time I bought it, I drove almost all spring ride, how bad could it be? It was awful, shook the sleeper to pieces, broke 2 leafs in a month, soon I was calling yards for a Pete cutoff. A local yard/shop had a cabover Pete with airleaf,, cut both frames behind the sleepers, ran a sleeve, bolted and welded, it changed the truck overnight. Depending what you are going to do with it, clearly, an '89 you aren't planning on long haul,,,are you?. Spring might be okay for short trips, dump work, but we've moved on from spring ride for a reason, and to the delight of anyone who spent any time in a spring ride tractor.