Just finished wasting five hours today, installing and uninstalling, Currie 4" coils springs.

A fellow Jeeper who has installed coil springs on several vehicles, assisted. After installing the passenger front first we noticed the spring was bowing in and out and in and out all the way from the perch to the frame mount. Looked like a stack of dimes .

Anyway we commenced with the driver side hoping that having both in would alleviate the bowing on the passenger side...not so much.

FYI The axles is centered and all control arms are same length.

FYI these pics only capture one dimension, they are bowed both fore and aft.





We then noticed the Currie springs are not flat at the point were they sit in the frame mount. To demonstrate, I stood up both the Jeep's current aftermarket spring and the Currie spring on there frame mount side on our patio, (well tried in the case of the Currie spring). Here is a link to a short movie showing the demonstration. The movie takes a few moments to load.

http://gallery.me.com/fatratofacat#1...&bgcolor=black

As you can see the Currie spring is not flat on it's top. In addition, we found an OEM spring and laid it on it's top end and it also stood straight up.

Could this phenomenon explain why the Currie springs sit all akimbo when installed? These bow so much we could not connect the driver side swaybar link.

I am not a rocket scientist, for certain, but I feel as though I am not a simpleton either. What are we missing? Is there some technique I am not aware of when installing springs in a Jeep? I found no installation instructions with the springs.

HELP!

 

Bueller, Bueller?

 

My Superlift springs looked like that after a week or two and got a little worse over the year. Got Tera Flex springs, had em on several weeks now, no signs of sagging. Sometimes you can play w/the control arms and trackbar abit, but since you said you did that I dunno what to tell ya. How much weight you got on the front?bumper, winch?

 

Is this something the wedges will take care of? (though I don't recall seeing any front wedges)

 

Those are the fronts, so I would say no.

 

Haha, you edited as I was typin about the fronts.

 

Best I can tell from the pics, they are bowed more towards the c's than front or back, am I correct? You said fore and aft, One more to the front or back or both going the same or different?

One thing you could do is call Currie and see if this is normal for their springs. My Superlifts were similar in the front,( bowed towards the c's, ) but I never had probs outta them. If it's causing rubbing or not being able to connect your link, that's different.

 

I helped JeepyJeep with the install. If you are standing at each wheel looking at the springs, they bend toward you and to the left. So the drivers side bends towards the front of the Jeep and the Passenger side towards the rear. The swaybay rubbed like crazy on the driver side so we had to switch them back to the old springs.

 

Have the same issue with my FT 3" lift on the passenger side. Bump stop now hitting the spring..........

 

That's odd if the CA's and tracbar is right. I'd get a refund, and go with different springs, but that's me.