Spring curvature

[Gunslinger]

Have any of you measured the curvature of the rear springs, unloaded?  Triple X developed a bad lean to the passenger side this year, I thought I had a broken leaf as the rear are pre resto.  I pulled the pass side off tonight and all are ok, measured the curvature by standing the pack on the bench and measuring from the top leaf to the bench top, it was 5.75 inches.  Any ideas if this is close to what it should be.  The lean is probably a good 1.5-2.0 inches.

[Gunslinger]

Well folks
Based on the lack of comments on this post I decided to do some research on spring curvature.� It was an interesting experiment.� I posted the repair process in the How To section of the page.� Bottom line this is a repair, those of you that prefer original restorations, please turn the volume down on your TV.� Instead of putting in new springs to reverse the passenger side lean, I put in a secondary spring in the existing spring pack.� This required removing 3 of the bottom springs to maintain total pack height, it also re-arched the pack by about 3/4 inch.
Results were excellent.
I have 215/85 -R16 tires, they are 29 inches tall
Measured from the bottom of the fender behind the rear wheel body to the floor:
Driver sided 23-1/4 inches
Pass side 23 1/2 inches
Driver side fender to top of tire 7 1/2
Pass side fender to top of tire 7 1/4

I installed the driver side secondary 5 years ago and have had no trouble, I expect the new one to perform as well, ride seems unaffected.

Comments?
Gunslinger

[Jesse]

I'll give you up to 3 Grainbelts to do the same thing to my jeep

-Jesse

[Gunslinger]

Jesse,
That might be too much!  It was really pretty easy.
Todd

[ZekeD]

Now I have another thing to fix before I can get on the road .  But thanks for the info, and the "how to"....   This is a great site, and it is the people that make it that way.

Zeke