northwestxj
NAXJA Member #1283
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- washington
After spending a lot of time searching I still haven't found exactly what I'm looking for.
Currently I am running about 4-4.5" of lift from various companies. The leafs are a bastard pack with an XJ main and dakata leafs. Also have some 1" extended shackles. Recently put in some new front springs (with a greater spring rate) in an effort to make my rear leafs work more. While I think that it did cause the leafs to do more work, they just don't have enough flex. They seem to quickly run out and I will start to lift a tire in the rear.
My question is where to go next. I have read on how to reduce friction (full-length liners, etc) in this thread http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23381&highlight=leaf+spring+tuning
However, I am not really wanting to try to rebuild an entire bastard pack right now. I am considering purchasing some new leaf springs, but am not sure how much it will help. Have heard that RE doesn't seem to do real well in the flex department, so I am considering OME or Deaver. With the OME I would most likely have to run their AAL to get my 4-4.5" of lift (using shackles).
Have also looked into rebuilding the shackle box to fix shackle angle, but I don't know if I would be able to do this too well with the amount of lift I want to run. Seems as though I would be running a small leaf pack and they would be really flat, allowing for almost no uptravel before inverting. Also, my shackle angle does not seem to be too bad right now...Prob about 10 degrees back or so. I'm thinking that I could maybe fix this by running a slightly longer pack/main leaf to better shackle angle...maybe with a boomerang shackle.
Ideas?...suggestions?...
Currently I am running about 4-4.5" of lift from various companies. The leafs are a bastard pack with an XJ main and dakata leafs. Also have some 1" extended shackles. Recently put in some new front springs (with a greater spring rate) in an effort to make my rear leafs work more. While I think that it did cause the leafs to do more work, they just don't have enough flex. They seem to quickly run out and I will start to lift a tire in the rear.
My question is where to go next. I have read on how to reduce friction (full-length liners, etc) in this thread http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23381&highlight=leaf+spring+tuning
However, I am not really wanting to try to rebuild an entire bastard pack right now. I am considering purchasing some new leaf springs, but am not sure how much it will help. Have heard that RE doesn't seem to do real well in the flex department, so I am considering OME or Deaver. With the OME I would most likely have to run their AAL to get my 4-4.5" of lift (using shackles).
Have also looked into rebuilding the shackle box to fix shackle angle, but I don't know if I would be able to do this too well with the amount of lift I want to run. Seems as though I would be running a small leaf pack and they would be really flat, allowing for almost no uptravel before inverting. Also, my shackle angle does not seem to be too bad right now...Prob about 10 degrees back or so. I'm thinking that I could maybe fix this by running a slightly longer pack/main leaf to better shackle angle...maybe with a boomerang shackle.
Ideas?...suggestions?...