I bought a set of 1 year old OME heavy springs from a fellow MUD member. He had bought them from Iron Pig Off Road and had used them on his HJ60 for roughly a year.
I installed the front leaf springs on to my HJ60 without any problems.
Upon installing the rear leaf springs I noticed that things didn't look right. The rear axle housing was now set back at least a couple of inches. The axle housing is now not centered in the wheelwell. I thought that I had installed them backwards so I removed them and re-installed them flipped around. Now the axle housing was again not centered but was too far forward!!!
How can this be??
I ended up putting back my original springs back on the rear.
The previous owner had them on the same truck but for some reason doens't fit properly on mine. Now before someone makes the suggestion that maybe my leaf spring mounting bracket oin my truck had been moved at one time by a previous owner the answer to that is no. Everything on my truck is as how it came from the factory.
Now what options do I have with these springs? I was thinking that I could carefully measure where the centering pin should go and drill another hole on to the leaf springs and moving the pin forward. Would this a bad idea?
Any help or suggestions would be welcome.......
I installed the front leaf springs on to my HJ60 without any problems.
Upon installing the rear leaf springs I noticed that things didn't look right. The rear axle housing was now set back at least a couple of inches. The axle housing is now not centered in the wheelwell. I thought that I had installed them backwards so I removed them and re-installed them flipped around. Now the axle housing was again not centered but was too far forward!!!
How can this be??
I ended up putting back my original springs back on the rear.
The previous owner had them on the same truck but for some reason doens't fit properly on mine. Now before someone makes the suggestion that maybe my leaf spring mounting bracket oin my truck had been moved at one time by a previous owner the answer to that is no. Everything on my truck is as how it came from the factory.
Now what options do I have with these springs? I was thinking that I could carefully measure where the centering pin should go and drill another hole on to the leaf springs and moving the pin forward. Would this a bad idea?
Any help or suggestions would be welcome.......