CJ8 leaf springs -- what should I do?

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Leaf springs appear very worn; worse on the front where it appears to be dropped a couple of inches on each side. Very noticeable. (These springs are barely more than flat.)

Just got new tires and alignment at my long-time favorite alignment shop. They found nothing else wrong.

Rear springs are better, but one side was rebowed (not sure about the correct term) several years ago.

I want to keep this CJ8 mostly stock, and almost all driving is on pavement. So I certainly don't want a serious (if any) lift.

Looking through 4wd and other catalogs most of what I see are lift kits.

Suggestions, please on what I should do? What are my options? What is available? What should I buy??

Thanks for all advice & suggestions ......

Mike Michael Pomeroy

L.W.(ßill) · Accepted Answer

Hi Mike,     Take it to a spring shop and have them rebuild them. tell the tore-arc them or add a leaf if you want a little lift. You could buy newsprings in a lift kit but most will believe your serious about offroadability and it'll ride like heck.         God Bless America, ßill O|||||||Omailto:          wrote:

Jeepster · Answer

I bought and installed new leaf springs from a spring shop last monthand got about 2" lift them, the total cost for all 4 springs was $500Canadian.

Mike Romain · Answer

When I needed new springs I just went to a local truck spring shop and they ordered in new ones made to CJ7 specs. I wanted a 2.5" lift so they got one spring arched already that way and manually arched the others to match. They used the heavier pre-arched spring in place of the second leaf down.

It has held great since 2000 and I bounce her pretty hard off road.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

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Mike Romain · Answer

I got mine installed as well for that....Canadian too...Mike86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '0088 Cherokee 235 BFG AT'sJeepster wrote:

Richard Harris · Answer

Mike,Looks like you want to keep things mostly original. Go to have many parts, some are N.O.S.. If keeping things original is whatyou want to do I'd recommend going that way. Someone correct me if I'm wrongbut your springs are the same as CJ7 springs, so you may have to get thosesince CJ8 stuff is few and far between.Rich

CJ8 leaf springs -- what should I do?

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