Leaf Spring retaining clips.

[BHORNY]

Hi all, anyone know where to buy these in NZ?
My leafs are starting to come apart a bit and I can't find anywhere that sells them.

[isuzurob]

I sent my leaves to arches springs in rotorua got them rebent and extra clips fitted

[geeves]

they dont look too hard to make

[isuzurob]

making them is easy i coulnt fint the soft peening rivits that they use to hold them to the leaf

[geeves]

A long time ago I had the rivet break off on my springs due to the axle clamp coming loose. I replaced it with a 8mm high tensile bolt with the bolt head up and ground after tightening. It was a bit hit and miss as the hole in the axle bracket was egg shaped

[BHORNY]

Thanks for your help guys, you might recognize this Rob..
It's not that bad, you can see the leaves are just starting to slide apart a bit and the clip that is in there doesn't join at the top so it is bending apart a little.
I had thought about making them, I'll see what it costs to get done at archers, there's one in AK.
Cheers,
Aidan

[isuzurob]

Hey good old whitey, that truck will never die, Those springs were always like that, and the band broke on the lh spring first time i went 4x4 with them in, so has been like that for ages, arches rotorua did them for me, just hit them straight with a hammer and make sure the u bolts around the diff housing are tight as the locker in the back tends to make them come loose if you drive it hard, have tightend mine twice in my swb, when we going 4x4ing?

[BHORNY]

Ok, will do. Thanks for the tip.
As soon as I can get away for a trip i will man, since we have moved onto our little 12 acre farm I have been spending a lot of my time outside of work hours doing work on the property and animals so it's been hard to get away.
I'll take some pics of the truck and put them up, I've painted it. Old whitey has a tan now..