YJ spring conversion, hanger distances

[gliryan]

So, I messed up. I thought I had my hanger distance and shackle angles good. When I did the front and dropped the jeep down, no motor, it didn't sag almost at all. The rear was absolutely not the case. I dropped it down and it sagged many inches, too many. The shackle angle is terrible, I bounced on the back one small bounce and the shackles flipped up.

I've been doing a bunch more searching and getting different ideas on how to setup the rear angles and measurements but I'm curious as to what other people have setup their cj's to when using yj lift springs. I based my angles on leafs with no weight on them, and thought I was going to have a pretty good finished setup, I was wrong. The shackles are 1" lift shackles for a yj.

Shackles are boomerangs

 

[Sasquach]

Maybe move the spring hanger forward?

 

[gliryan]

Well, naturally yes. I'll be chopping before going to thanksgiving stuff in the morning. I'm wondering from people who have done this what is the distance between hangers. Curious as to how far off I am.

 

[AussieCJ7]

Well, naturally yes. I'll be chopping before going to thanksgiving stuff in the morning. I'm wondering from people who have done this what is the distance between hangers. Curious as to how far off I am.

Try this as a starting point there is a lot of tuning that can be done in leaf springs from shackle angle and length

Leaf spring shackle basics. - Pirate4x4.Com Bulletin Board