.....Lets get this straight from the git go. This is MY OPINON and based only on my opinion!
Before turning the complete spring around take a good look at how the leaves are mounted. You will notice that the individual leaves are not centered to the center bolt and are "forward" to help absorb the torque from the axle pivoting. In other words there is "more length" of spring in front of where the center bolt is than behind it. If you turn the entire leaves around then don't you upset (or change) the torque on the springs and not have enough leave where you need it????
I took my leaves apart to clean and put poly liner between the leavss. Going from memory the two top springs are the "same" distance on each end.... except the center bolt is in a different place... toward the rear when you flip them.
To keep the bottom leaves in the same position to absorb the torque I did not "turn/flip" them around but put them back on the center bolt going in the same direction as they were originally.
Does this make sense to anyone? do you understand what I'm trying to relate here?.... or am I just all wet?
Maybe its time for the men in the white coats to come get me.......
Jock, I don't know why it was forward but if you look at some of my photobuckets you can see that if you let the torque tube down the wheels would go Waaaay forward into the fender, if you picked the torque tube up, the wheels would swivel, or roll, a long way back toward the rear. Not sure what this means other than room for it to swivel back and forth according to the weight/load on it. Or maybe it had something to do with multiply uses for the same chassis?
Now back to my original opinion....lets here YOUR OPINON!!
