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9/9/19: Today reassembly of the leaf springs was the task. I had previously purchased spring liners to install between the leafs so starting with the new main leaf, I cut my first liner about a 1/4” longer than the spring. Each spring has a hole in the center for the center bolt. The liners needed this hole which I accomplished by using a transfer punch and the spring as the die. After placing the liner on top of the leaf, inserting the transfer punch from the bottom thru the center bolt hole, I pressed the punch into the liner leaving a pin hole mark. Now insuring the the liner and spring didn’t move, I took the transfer punch, located it on the pin hole mark from the top and drove the punch thru the spring. This left a perfect hole. I started stacking the leaf and liner combination on the new center bolt I had previously bought, insuring the lip of the liners were facing down so they would shed water. Six more repetitions and a subsequent tightening of the center bolt and the spring assembly was ready for crimping. Prior to crimping the spring clamps, I cut the center bolt about an 1/8” long and used a ball peen hammer and my vice to peen the bolt into a rivet shape to keep the nut from backing out. I also used the vice to help with folding the spring clamps over on the spring assembly. I was concerned that they may break when I hammered them over but that was not the case. They folded over and tightened nicely to the spring stack.

I followed the same sequence for that drivers side with the same result. The springs were ready to go back in the truck.