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Help Needed - Installing Trailing Arm to Leaf Spring

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Old Nov 6, 2014 | 07:52 PM
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Default Help Needed - Installing Trailing Arm to Leaf Spring
Yiikes - doing a body off restoration and just rebuilt the trailing arms. Trying to figure out the best way to re- install with the body off. There is a lot of energy in that leaf spring and I can see that it could certainly injure if not careful - especially with no weight in the back end of the car.
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Use a ratcheting strap over the upper frame ceoss member, that way it pulls the leaf spring up.
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This is how i did mine..Small floor jack a towel and some webbing with some vise grips..






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Originally Posted by 66jack
This is how i did mine..Small floor jack a towel and some webbing with some vise grips..






VeryHelpful - thanks a bunch!
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That's how I did mine thanks to those pictures. Worked out well.
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