Broken Leaf Springs?

Has anyone ever seen this happen?



Leaf looks like it broke in the middle. Put a large groove in my tire as well.

What should I do to fix it? Any help is appreciated.

 

Uh, yeah at the very least your spring clamp is busted allowing the leaf to rotate. But more likely that the leaf is broken. time for new springs.

 

Looking at that again.....is that an AAL? If it is it's probably too short to be held in place by the spring clamps. Get that thing outta there.

 

not sure if its an AAL but if not then the same shit happened to my stock springs a year or so ago.. apparently its not that uncommon

 

any suggestions on what springs to get as replacements?

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It does look like an AAl, but I don't know why it has rotated out like that. The u-bolts should prevent that from happening. But there are three leaves above it and that is the number for the stock springs.

How long does it extend on the other side?

 

Yikes! I've never seen that happen before. What were you doing around the time it happened?

 

you want good cost effective leafs? get Dorman leafs....run you about 100 bucks each. I have Dorman leafs and theyre great let me tell you. I paired them with some 38 dollar KYB and let me tell you they great too!

 

The end of that leaf that is in the picture.......that's not where it broke. That was cut that length long before the rust started happening. You can see the rust mark on the leaves above it as well, showing its original length. In order for it to have rotated out like that, it would have had to crack somewhere between the u-bolts. If not, they would have kept it in line. Check there.

You don't necessarily need new springs. You just need to replace that broken AAL (and the one on the other side). You can see it's far more rusted out than the rest of the leaf pack. Granted, the stock leaf packs suck ass, so its not a bad time to replace them anyhow, but it costs a little more.

 

Depends on if you want lift springs or not. Where are you in SLC? I work downtown if you want to take a look at what's on my truck sometime. I'm happy to offer suggestions whichever way you want to go. I'm happy to take a look at your springs too and help see exactly what the problem is.

 

All good suggestions on the leaf spring... but let's not ignore the tire. You'll need to replace that too!

 

Yeah thats a nasty spring mis alignment, I'd either fix or replace the leafs all together, but def. should be broke down inspected if you intend to rebuild them (thats what Id do) might of even sheered axlepin allowing the leafs to loosen up breaking & flopping sideways

 

Seen it happen many times on vehicles that are used offroad and flex ALOT. Aka Jeeps, Samurais, FJ40s, etc.

Its from reverse arch and stress on the leaf.

Replace both sides at once and back to the trail you go. Its like replacing brakes but you only do it once every 10 years at worst. lol

 

Or like a few here that think they drive 1 tons & overload them ......I see this breaking leaves more than anything else, but extreme flexing will fatigue to failure as well...

 

its not broken just came misaligned, pound it back in with a BFH. Would happen all the time on my Cherokee just keep an eye on it. It takes a while for it to travel out that far. And Check the u-bolt to make sure they are still tight. And if It was me I would still run that tire, no belts exposed.

 

ahh I cant tell from the pictures because there are like 3 pixels per picture. lol

 

I'm sorry, I disagree with you on every account. Look at the angle of the leaf. From the visible tip of the exposed leaf follow the center line back to where it would exit out the back. It would have to be going straight through the rear u-bolt.

OP needs to post more pictures of the leaf from all angles.

 

Ones with higher res would be nice... lol

 

So you don't think the front end of that leaf is sticking out the opposite direction. I don't know it could be it is close. If only the back part of the leaf is sticking out then yes it would be broke.

I can say on my Cherokee the leaf never stuck out that far but the tire was only like and inch away from the leaf so the tire would stop it before it got that far.

 

No It's not physically possible for that leaf to turn a that angle unless the u-bolt on the opposite side of the axle were missing. Which it isn't.

The springs still appear to have arch in them. Just order another set of AAL's and 4 new Ubolts (Important) and it should be good to go. At least, given the information in front of me, that is what I'd do. I'd also replace that tire.