anyone know how to stop this???

[XJ Fanatic]

Ok well i love my rustys 305sts lift except for one part the overload spring on the passenger side keeps shifting towards the tire. I was wondering if anyone knows how to stop this. i have cranked down the ubolts to the point where they wont move anymore with a breaker bar lol and still it shifts. the drivers side spring doesnt do that... I love having overloads cuz i will have a tendancy to load up my jeep and already do so right. but Anyone know how to help this??

[MJMA]

dude, bring it to a garage and have them tighten the Uboltz with an impact gun. I have had that happen before. You can only get the things so tight with a breaker bar. Impact gun tightens it so it won't ever come loose.

[MJMA]

dude, bring it to a garage and have them tighten the Uboltz with an impact gun. I have had that happen before. You can only get the things so tight with a breaker bar. Impact gun tightens it so it won't ever come loose.

[XJ Fanatic]

sounds good wierd rustys only calls for 75lbs of pressure i would think i have that but garage it is when i get some cash until then i will just keep pullin the wheel and tighten it its not it coming loose i really dont know what it is

[Static-XJ]

I'd just get a spring clamp and use it to keep the overload from wandering. When instaling the spring clamp make do it close to the axle. And make it just tight enough to keep it from sliding off the overload.

[XJ Fanatic]

thats a possibility... hmm maybe i can do that i had a zip tie on there and believe it or not work ok just limitted flex so it came off

[rocrunner]

get soem new u-bolts since you've been messing with those. cheap insurance. chrysler sells axle shim kits, that fit between the tube and the spring. they make things nice and snug.

[XJ Fanatic]

see i had new ubolts on there and thats what kept slipping... the stock ones have a coarse thread which seems to hold longer then the others. and they have that washer thing there. i think i am gonna have a shop torque them down and maybe a spring clamp but i feel that will limit droop to much... i am waiting to see if cheap has a cheap way of doing this

[MJMA]

dude, you don't need a clamp, the Ubolts just aren't tight enough. You can get them as tight as you possibly can with a breaker bar and then throw an impact gun on there and turn the nut another turn or so.

Ubolts really shouldn't be used more than once. When you tighten them you should be stretching them out. IF you stretch it more than once it will probably break. gotta have new Ubolts and get em on there with an impact gun.

[XJ Fanatic]

i got new ubolts man they just wont tighten. and they keep stretching the factory ones are doing a better job then the new ones as of this point.

[ZJMark]

8 grade bolts and 150 pounds of torque and yer in good shape!!

[Ryan, aka: CheapXJ.com]

You had to keep tightening the U-bolts?

that's really bad, i wouldn't use ubolts that keep stretching.

75lbs sounds like too little though. I bought a block lift kit that was cheap and came with long grade-8 ubolts that wan on clearance for like $10 when i was doin my lift.

put some thick washers and lock washers underneath the bolts as well. crank them down to 150 lb/ft (and make sure to progressively torque them, going around in a zig-zag pattern, go in 20lb increments) You're probably getting them unevenly torqued and it's prematurely stretching the bolts.

after the initial torquing, go and drive it hard for a week (lots of hard acceleration and hard braking) then retorque them.

shouldn't have to worry about them then.

i need a smoke... it was a long ****ty trip back to school.