Is this normal for Alcan leaf springs?

Right?

 

Help me out here brotha!

 

How much lift did you ask for? Are you getting that amount of lift? If so, I wouldn’t worry about it. Maybe still ask if you’re curious, but I wouldn’t stress about it if you are.

 

Here the little hole to mount the parking brake cable

 

Hold 2” of lift with 500lb extra capacity, it sits 3” high unloaded and just over 2” with the camper shell on

 

Sorry the pic was meant for the previous post

 

So you wanted it with 2” with 500 lb and it’s at 2” with shell and spare?

Personally, I would send them an email to ask and if they said it was fine I would be ok with it since you are at 2” lift.

 

Did you order these direct from Alcan?

 

Left alone that will cause the differential to twist downward every time the suspension droops. Maybe not an immediate concern but eventually it'll cause u-joints to wear out at the very least.

 

Yes I did. They made them to support my truck with sliders, skids, and 500lbs extra.

 

2” with sliders, skids, shell, spare, and 500lb extra

*shell was not included in the calculation. Shell is part of the 500lb extra.

 

Is the oil on the carrier bearing indicative of an issue? Could this be caused by the possible axle wrap I’m dealing with?

 

I don’t notice any sort of clunking noise like most people mention in relation to axle wrap. The truck drives fine and doesn’t weird me out until now. I also have barely any miles on it and don’t drive aggressively

 

Pretty sure the leaf packs are on backwards, but that’s just from the stock leaf pack reference?

 

Would they even be able install them
Backwards?

 

They’re not backwards

 

What makes you sure? They look right to me, but I’m so dumbfounded as to what’s going on here that nothing is looking right to me anymore..

 

The double military wrap (or whatever it’s called) is always forward facing.

 

Also, I just grabbed a digital level and the angle on the first half of the drive shaft is 4 degrees. The angle on the 2nd piece is 7 degrees. The angle on the bottom of the rear diff says 4 degrees

 

That’s precisely what I thought. At least I know that’s not f*d up