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Boody,
As a registered member you won't save much over the Wheeler price online. Gary Wheeler indicated as Subscribing members one can purchase just the AAL springs for $65.00, registered members can purchase them for $75.00. You will have to work that one out with Gary on your own. If you were to subscribe to TS you could save almost 1/2 the subscription fee on this buy alone. The u-bolts are normally 29.95/set of four and come with high strenght nuts and washers. Wheeler's also silver zinc plate their u-bolts for corrosion resistance. The total price for the AAL's and u-bolts would normally be $107.50. As a Registered member the group buy will save you the cost of postage (about $12.50). As a Subscribing member you would save $22.50, close to the cost of membership.

I looked at my stock Toyota u-bolts and they have about 1/2" of additional thread showing. For arguments sake, if the AAL is 1/2" in thickness (purely speculative on my part), yes the stock u-bolts would still work. That would put the nut right at the end of the bolt and would probably require the use of something like lock-tite to insure that the nut will not vibrate off the u-bolt. I think the addition of the Wheeler's u-bolts, in my case anyway, would be additional insurance that prevented me from having to order u-bolts after the fact while I have the truck suspension apart.

You have to decide what is a value for you, and what is not, but this price is certainly much better than the $150.00 price that Carson Toyota origionally quoted.