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11-01-09, 07:57 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
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Inverted shackle yesterday...
Greetings. I have been lurking here for a couple months. I picked up an 88 FJ62 in May and have been working all of the "undisclosed bugs" out of it. Last night while out driving it over some harsh terrain, I heard the all too familiar rubber on fender sound. I hear it alot in my Chevy with 40" tires. This was the first time I heard it in the 62. My question is can I bend the leaf spring back into shape without harming the structural integrity of the spring? If the spring is shot, what is a good inexpensive comparable spring. I know there are a lot of spring options going new, but this is a weekend wheeler not a daily driver. Any help would be appreciated
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11-01-09, 08:06 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Welcome to Mud!
Stock springs? A spring bent back into shape is always going to be compromised. Mudders installing a lift frequently hawk their old stockers in the classified section here.
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11-01-09, 08:09 AM
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what ^ said.
Also, depending on your location, you might be able to score some stuff out of Cash 4 Clunkers junked 60/62's.
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11-01-09, 09:29 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Helena MT
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sounds like something is very wrong, stock configuration should not inverse a shackle. I don't see how an inversed shackle would rub the tire, it would seem to me the rig would sit higher not lower?
bent spring=replace
broken spring=replace
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11-01-09, 09:33 AM
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I would like to see the carnage...........................got a photo?
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11-01-09, 10:05 AM
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Will get photos today...Should've mentioned Its SOA with 35" tires and tired stock springs. Bigger shock hoops and shocks though. No sway bars.
What springs will fit this particular situation? If I go with higher arched springs it will be too top heavy, I think.
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11-01-09, 10:09 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Cut off the shackle mounts and move them in an inch or. Then run a longer shackle. You will have more articulation, a better ride and no more inverting. That is the very reason that I taught myself to weld years ago.
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11-01-09, 10:10 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RTCUL8
Will get photos today...Should've mentioned Its SOA with 35" tires and tired stock springs. Bigger shock hoops and shocks though. No sway bars.
What springs will fit this particular situation? If I go with higher arched springs it will be too top heavy, I think.
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I prefer a tired spring for the soa. 
The soa rides better with an experienced spring rather than a new spring. My 2 cents. 
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May 85' fj60 - " TONTO" SOA bunch a cool stuff, 400 plus horses!
April 85' fj60 "DUSTY" metalic brown. fully stock 90K
2001 Land Rover Disco 2
Skidoo XP 800 164" (my chairlift)
Wow, look at all the expensive **** in your sig line. Perhaps you should make the damned thing run, reliably, before dragging it thru an offroad catalog with a magnet attached! After all the work it took to install all that, I'd thinhk a couple of water leaks should be minor! ~ TEXX (IH8MUD member) 10/09
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11-01-09, 12:56 PM
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Rando-kurūzā
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Loose Angle-eese
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Spring steel is very resilient. It should bend back fine. In fact, I've seen them "bend back" after trail use and be fine.
But of course, this depends on the if there's a "crease" in the bend or not...
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11-01-09, 02:40 PM
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: C-Ville, Va
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For a wheeler only, I'd use Spike Strip's idea and run it for a while to see if it settled down(bent back into original shape).If it's not too rusted, it should be fine. Moving the shackle mounts seems like a good idea, as well.
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