ajv58

OK so today i was dropping my buddy off after he got out of work as he lives right up the street from me. Well he lives on a really bad blind driveway and as i was pulling out some old *** was going about 60 over the hill where it's a 30 I was about halfway through the lane when i saw him so i gunned it. Bad idea, when i did the leaf spring on the drivers side ripped off the frame and up through the floor... Does anyone have any clue how to fix this the spring is still in the shackle just not on the frame

I'll post Pics tomorrow it's like midnight right now.

taythegibs

that sounds bad.... ive never heard of that happening but you will probably have to weld on some reinforcements to the unibody and then put it all back together.

Daniel_Sach

How on earth is that possible? I could see it ripping apart, but how could it come all the way through the floor? what kind of performance mods you running dude????? LOL!!! Thats insane. Im sorry.

ol"blue

Raise and support vehicle with jackstand under frame. Remove rusted/broken spring hanger. You'll have to get a replacement spring hanger/frame section from a donor Jeep and have it welded in place of the rusted out piece. Fix hole in floor. Easier and safer to transplant your engine into a cheap, non-running Jeep.

ajv58

OK just took some pictures



This is the side with the good spring ---->

This is the side with the bad Spring ---->



I think you may have thought it was the whole spring it actually was just the front of the spring sorry if i didn't explain very well

boyesreef

WOW, i wouldnt even bother fixin it. youll get it fixed and the otherone will do it, thats my luck!

bigin2009

I have never seen that happen!!!! that is crazy!!

c-loss

Its rusted bad enough I would just set it off to the side for motor and what not parts and get a less rusted one. That is horrible.

ajv58

Yeah but it's one of those things where, you've put so much work into it already.... Either way when we attempt to fix this one we're gonna reinforce the hell out of the other one. and probably weld an interior roll cage to it just to give it that much more strength

c-loss

So your pretty much gonna re-do the whole underside of your rig? I still say parts truck it. But to each there own. Everything can be done.

ajv58

well the biggest problem i'm having with it is that I can't find another XJ in the area that's not wickedly overpriced or has worse rust than mine does, i've been slowly getting rid of most of the rust. I'm stuck as of now

claygrassmann

reinforce and weld the crap out of it is the best i can tell you, i kno i picked up some steel the other day for my rear bumper im gonna make and i payed 60 bucks for one bit of it but it would be enough to reinforce that tho.

ol"blue

Then put a cage in it and go to coil springs instead.

ajv58

Is it even possible to go to coil springs? And yeah i'm going to cage it up and just put an obsene amount of steel on it lol. I'll post pics and let you guys know how it goes. Now i've just gotta wait for the temp to go up a little 20 isn't quite good.

taythegibs

the coil springs would be awesome ive seen it done on different sites you might want to search naxja. if your gona have to redo the whole side anyway it probably wouldnt be too much more work and would be pretty wicked.