Rear Leaf helper
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Rear Leaf helper
Does anyone know how to straighten a rear leaf spring? I ditched my 1994 F150 truck this winter and i just now realized that one of my rear coil springs is messed up. It looks like when the axle shifted when it slid in the ditch the leaf springs shifted over. All of them except the very bottom one went back to there normal positions. I have been trying to pry the u bolts off but they have never been taken off before. Any ideas? Sould i just cut the u bolts off straighten the leaf spring or what. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Gonna need you to specify which part is messed up. You mention a coil spring in the back, and a leaf spring, (what the......?).
Since we can possibly buy the leaf spring being messed up, we need to determine exactly how it is bad. The spring has a center pin that keeps all of the leafs together, and locates it on the axle perch. Unless you have mad blocks stacked up under the spring, it is difficult to bend the u-bolts. Now it is possible to have the springs twist or rotate on the center pin. If that was the case, they would only need a few whacks to return them so they stack up properly again. If the spring is bent or twisted, and no longer flat, then you will have to replace it, and the u-bolts, so the torch is a tool that makes quick work of this.
Maybe it is not as bad as you think. Do you have any pics?
Since we can possibly buy the leaf spring being messed up, we need to determine exactly how it is bad. The spring has a center pin that keeps all of the leafs together, and locates it on the axle perch. Unless you have mad blocks stacked up under the spring, it is difficult to bend the u-bolts. Now it is possible to have the springs twist or rotate on the center pin. If that was the case, they would only need a few whacks to return them so they stack up properly again. If the spring is bent or twisted, and no longer flat, then you will have to replace it, and the u-bolts, so the torch is a tool that makes quick work of this.
Maybe it is not as bad as you think. Do you have any pics?
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