vincanity

So the other day I was driving home and my buddy was like man your right rear is sagging pretty bad. So I got home and sure enough the right rear leads are all detatched from eachother. I called up rustys and they said it has lifetime guarantee but I sent them pics and left messages and nobody got back to me. What should I do? My left leaf is just fine so if they send me a new right leaf my lift is goog to look all jacked up unless it settles eventually. Why do you guys think. There's 2 pics of the right leaf and one of the left so you can see the comparison

Deanxj97

Well how is your alignment? And from the pics it looks like centering pin is missing

vincanity

Alignment is all jacked up. I have to keep steering wheel left to go straight. I wheeled it pretty hard 2 weekends ago, it will be sitting in the garage until I figure out what to do. Not to mention I got a c8.25 geared to 4.56 and powertrax noslip locker. Plan on installing that while I have the springs and everything off

Deanxj97

Same thing happened to me. Did some really hard wheeling and thought it was an alinement. But your rear axle alinement effects your front end. You hit something really hard and knocked your axle forward or backwards and broke the centering pin. Your going to have to drop the axle take the leafs apart and put the new pin in and line it back up with the whole in the perch.

vincanity

Wow your right just went out and looked again. Centering pin is broke so they popped out of place then I was looking even harder and I'm actually missing a spring! The shortest one that sits at the bottom resting on the perch. Here's a pic of the left and right. Will I be able to get a new centering pin?

Deanxj97

Yeah I bought a set from rusty's and kept the other in my tool box. And maybe go to a junkyard for that bottom leaf

vincanity

Do you think I could get just that bottom leaf from rustys along with the centering pin?

Deanxj97

Idk if they sell the bottom leaf, maybe just give them a call

bigvig

If one side is fine and the other is messed up, then just jack up that side and take that side apart. Some work but not bad. Obviously needs a new lower leaf and center pin, but other than that I think youll be OK taking the clamps off and rebuilding them. Could be worse.

Deanxj97

X2 ^ Could have been much worse. It's an easy job but it would definitely go much quicker with 2 people, and 2 large c-clamps to clamp the leaf together while you put the pin in and line it all up (or something similar)

vincanity

Very true. Thx guys. Do you think shackles would help that at all? I have the 6.5" rustys longarm kit.. I have the stock shackles the xj has, would after market shackles affect lift size or benefit me so that doesn't happen again?

Deanxj97

Not really, cause I have aftermarket shackles. Some of those centering bolts are so poorly made. It could have just been your u-bolts were loose.

vincanity

What are shackles good for then. By the way thanks for your help

Deanxj97

No problem. Lol it was probably just a cheap solution for them to level out the rear to the front.