Spring Helpers

49erRider

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May 20, 2005
Location
Indian Land
Well on my 2000 XJ daily driver only. I have some rear spring sag. I was going to pick up some 1500# spring helpers.

Does anyone have any info on how these will affect ride quality?

Also is install pretty straightforward? Lift up the old pack, put these under, bolt to old pack, then bolt it down to axle?

Thanks
 
Same thing happened on my 99 XY. Springs were bent the wrong way with no load. Fall of 2007 replaced both rear springs with the heavy duty rear springs from Quadratec. Discovered some interesting things in the process. hidden weld nuts suck. The main eye bolt was kinda rusted to the bushing sleeve. This prevented using the impact driver because the bushing absorbed the impact. This is where a lift would have been useful. I had to use the breaker bar and made only 1/6th of a turn with each push. Imagine spending 2 hours in the gym doing half presses and bent rows.
I must say that the HD springs are the nest choice I could have made. Now when we go camping, the Jeep doesn't ride nose up. And when we had it loaded down with about 500 pounds of stuff inside and God knows how much in the hitch mounted rack, the XJ drove just fine.
Of course doing some sort of add-a-leaf is less work. And less $$.
 
Yah I think I'm going to try these $30 spring helpers. If they don't work I'll buy new leafs from quadratec. I figure with this if it works for $30 bucks i'm happy. If it doesn't work so well and I sell for $15 bucks then oh well lesson learned.
 
Got the $30 dollar spring helpers today and worked great. I now have arch again and the ride is much better believe it or not.

WOO HOO
 
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