Leafs? Shackles? help me with my prob!

[Mike]

well as many of you know i did shackles not to long ago.. maybe 6 months.. now from the look of it my leaf springs have flatened out.. they look like this ____
now i have some time left on my factory war.. so can i take it in and will they replace this? if i do will i have to remove my War-153 shackles? or can i leave them on.. i will remove them i dont care if i can get mew leaf springs out of this.. but are they covered under my 36k war?


anyone?!


thanks

mike

 

[X-1]

I would definitely take out the shackles before you try to get it covered under warranty. As far as coverage, worse they can tell you is no.

 

[addkev]

There was a lot of talk about this when the Warriors first came out, and the final concensus was that it was an optical illusion, your springs haven't flattened out, it just looks like it. I BELIEVE the way to check was measure the distance from end to end on your truck and then end to end on a stock truck and you will find they are the same.

If yours have indeed flattened then I would guarantee you will have to replace your stock shackles to even get them to even talk about a warranty replacement.

Good luck.
Kevin

 

[Maniak]

I was looking for my notes, but I haven't been able to find them.

If you put a straight edge between the two eyes of the spring and measure the distance between the straight edge and the top leaf at the lowest point you will find out how much arch you have.

I did this with both with stock shackles and with War-153 shackles. They were the same. Turns out it looks like it is flatter becuase the pivot point at the rear of the truck is lower, so the entire spring pack is rotated slightly clockwise (when looking at the driver side pack from the driver side of the vehicle).. or counter clockwise if you looking at the passenger spring pack from the passenger side of the vehicle.

~Mark