[Stocker]

Originally Posted by Red71gmc

I believe the correct way would be to leave the base spring and remove every other spring after it till what you want. One or two would make a lot of difference on ride but of course at the cost of payload capacity. If never used as a 3/4 ton for payload it would not make a lot of difference for you.

Another suggestion following that line of thinking would be to look closely at leaf springs for half-ton trucks and copy them as closely as possible. Or just try to source a pair of half-ton leafs and swap them in.