Hi folks. This is my first post here. Before anything else, thanks so much for all the knowledge and info I've found here up to this point.

Now for my potential problem, I just got some leaf springs in the mail for a full suspension rebuild, but I've encountered something that immediately caught my eye when I was inspecting them. One of the leafs seems to be off center by about a half inch. I used a rubber mallet to try to coax it back into place but it won't budge. The other leafs can move when I give them a bump, but this one is solid. If it makes a difference in spring design, the springs are from Crown, heavy duty, no lift 4886185AA model. Do you think this will be a problem?

 

Try a BFH to provide the proper motivation. Use a piece of wood of you're concerned about scratching the paint.

 

That is not a huge problem. If the leaf is warped to the side a little, that can be a good sign. It means the leaves were bent and tempered at a cherry red temp instead of cold rolled. Being tapered on the end is a good thing too as well as the friction pads

 

Okay, thanks for the help. A little more go with the hammer then hey? Does that mean it's not a pin holding it in place? Would that be part of a teflon spacer? I see a spacer when I look from the side, but I've never taken a set of springs apart before so I was thinking maybe it was a misaligned steel pin holding it off to the side.

 

The pin is in the middle, so each leaf should rotate around the pin (slightly) when it finally moves.