Front Spring Follow Up please

[dbcooper292]

Thank you very much for the information but I'm still unclear on one important thing - the way the pictures show threaded bushing/nut/bolt things on both ends of the shackle it makes me wonder why that end of the front spring has just a closed loop and no threads in it. Is this right, that the shackle goes inside the spring and the threaded bushing goes into there also with one set of threads facing the shackle and the other (outside) set of threads just sitting in the spring loop with no threads or bushing to ride on? This is the part that worries me about what I've got but it might be right.

To put it another way, in the picture of the shackles and bolts, one end of the shackle goes into a threaded hangar in the frame rail, what does the other end go into and does that thing have threads in it?

Thanks

db.

[48Dodger]

Maybe you're missing the threaded bushing? I sand blasted the ends to get a better picture for everyone. Honestly I don't know if they are pressed in or threaded in like the sleeve nuts (that's what I call'em anyway). I posted these pictures on both threads. Let me know if any other pictures will help. The photos are of the driver side spring, front eye and its hanger.

48D

[MBF]

If I remember correctly. The front of the front springs have a pressed bushing that is threaded inside, and has a knurled surface on the outside. The hollow threaded bolt goes through the front spring mount. The rear eyes of the springs have no pressed in bushings. The bushings are shown in your picture of the rear shackle and screw onto the spring shackle threads. The outer area that looks threaded on the busing isn't actually used as a thread, its used as an area to hold grease between the spring eye and shackle. It's been awhile since I did mine so this is from recall which may or not be right-accuracy goes down with age. Mike

[Todd B]

The front of the front spring is pressed in (only). All the other bushings are threaded in. The bushings that goes through the frame are right hand threads and the bushing that goes through the spring is left hand threads on the left, right hand threads on the right.

Todd B

[Todd B]

Mike, your post is correct execpt for the part about grease on the outside of the bushing. There is no way grease can get there and the idea of the threads is to hold it in place. Pretty close from memory.

Todd B

[48Dodger]

"Is this right, that the shackle goes inside the spring and the threaded bushing goes into there also with one set of threads facing the shackle and the other (outside) set of threads just sitting in the spring loop with no threads or bushing to ride on?"

Yes. This is right. The sleeve nut is the bushing.

This is the rear eye of the front spring. no press in bushing like the front.

48D

[dbcooper292]

Yay great -thanks everyone!

db