Rubicon Express AAL 2.5'' question..
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this time the mailman comes and its empty again i can feel it without opening it should weigh 22 pounds if its empty again i will NOT accept the package and he can take it with him and report back to whom ever he got it from
marc
edit: i thought its a fair price 40 bucks per leaf idk seems fair to me
marc
edit: i thought its a fair price 40 bucks per leaf idk seems fair to me
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yaaaaaaaaaaay they came in finally..
now get to work
marc
edit: nice arches perfectly even with each other out of the box
now get to work
marc
edit: nice arches perfectly even with each other out of the box
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well to finish this thread up,
it is doable to leave the main leaf spring on bolted to the jeep and drop the axle low enough to add the leaf one side at the time, passenger side went ok hand brake cable was a bit in the way cause of the muffler but just enough stretch to work around it. the drivers side i had to take the clip out of the brake line bracket where hard meets the soft line to get more flex and gave me a few more inches of drop.
ive used 3 small c-clamps to pack the leafs together with the center pin inserted and placed the pack on the axle with the center pin aligned in the axle hole and started to jack the axle back up aligning everyting together bit by bit slowly. once the center pin is almost completely through the hole in the main leaf spring i switched the c-clamps one at the time to pack the whole leaf pack together with the main leaf that was still attached and tighten everything back up.
marc
i'll get a picture up soon
edit: of course i put the clip back in the brake line bracket after and also i added another spring hooked to the sway bar hinge that pulls the hand brake cable away up higher from the muffler cause that was touching and started to melt a little.
it is doable to leave the main leaf spring on bolted to the jeep and drop the axle low enough to add the leaf one side at the time, passenger side went ok hand brake cable was a bit in the way cause of the muffler but just enough stretch to work around it. the drivers side i had to take the clip out of the brake line bracket where hard meets the soft line to get more flex and gave me a few more inches of drop.
ive used 3 small c-clamps to pack the leafs together with the center pin inserted and placed the pack on the axle with the center pin aligned in the axle hole and started to jack the axle back up aligning everyting together bit by bit slowly. once the center pin is almost completely through the hole in the main leaf spring i switched the c-clamps one at the time to pack the whole leaf pack together with the main leaf that was still attached and tighten everything back up.
marc
i'll get a picture up soon
edit: of course i put the clip back in the brake line bracket after and also i added another spring hooked to the sway bar hinge that pulls the hand brake cable away up higher from the muffler cause that was touching and started to melt a little.
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here a picture of the rear lift 2.5'' rubicon express full add-a-leaf with 15x8'' baja rims on 32's
im still working on the front flares its coming together need some more time
marc
im still working on the front flares its coming together need some more time
marc
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