leaf over axle conversion
 

Is it much work to put the leaf springs over the axles ? What will have to be done to do this,and is there a section here that will give me any info on this.
Pro's and con's.
It looks like there is some lift on the YJ because the springs are more arched and extra springs and there is 31's on it now. I dont know what the P/O did to it.

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Il put it this way if you think on saving money buy doing a soa, you might be in for a surprise. I have my yj Soa and I personally think that if your only going to do mud and use it as a trailerqueen and not a dayly driver, its worth it. “SOA” can be a real hassle and even dangerous when going over 60kmph and not mentioning the wired steering problems ill give you if you don’t do it right. And you have to figerout a way to get somekind of sway bar installed orels your leaf spring will twist and worp.

When I bout my jeep it was already Soa converted with the stock leaf springs….Way to soft, to the point of lousing my rear driveshaft even with a 3inch lowered transfer case (stock slipyok fell out ), I ended up buying 2.5inch rubriconexpres leaf springs that are way harder than the stock. But having no swaybar sherly doesn’t help.

I could go on probably fore a page with the troubles of soa, But if u Ented only to use it as an offroad platform its grate.

By the way I swapped my axles and u have to give the rear one a serten degree of +angel to help the slipyok or get a slipyok eliminator.

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Ive heard alot of negative stuff about SOA. Makes me nervous

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I did a spring over axle in my 88 Samurai and it worked great. I bought the kit from Rocky Road Outfitters. It was the 6.5" kit and I used 3/4" con fer shackles. I removed the front sway bar and never looked back! This past weekend I bought a 89 YJ and will be installing the Rocky Road 6.5" SOA in the next month. I always used my suzuki as a daily driver. On the hi-way the samurai worked great as well. I never used a trailer for it. Done right they work very well.

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a buddy did it spring over along with a 3 in body lift so all in toll hes ard 7 in which is well he tries to avoid running on a windy day, hes also not connected at either end which doesn't help to much for saleability either. If you keep it reasonable and DON'T add a body lift to it you should be okay.

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been driving my YJ with the SOA for 6 years now and was driving 70km a day the main thing you got to do is put in add-a-laefs in all 4 springs packs

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ya if tehre is anyone to talk to about sprung over jeeps scooby DAH man

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umm i think the main think for the bump steer is get a proper high steer that moves the steering above the axles back in its stock "location"

and yeah scoobs jeeps rides fine... had a faint skunk smell but it could have just been my jacket

dont for get longer brake lines, and drive shaft might need a spacer..

im doing a spring over on a set of toyota axles in a samurai.. ill post some pics when im doing that part... im using all new perches and shock mounts on the rear axle, and a kit that welds on the factory perch on the front. also went with u bolt flip kit that gets your u bolts outta harms way and pointing towards the truck body.. im going to be using yj springs in the springs/summer when i can go full high steer and afford some big boy tires..


so point of my whole rambing... research every mod a million times and look at a million buildups.. better to do choices that you can do once.. and not have to respend money.. alot can be done on the cheap if you can follow directions!

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ya if ya need i got pics of the the hole biuld

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i had the same train of thought as BigT, i am looking to do a Soa setup, been researching builds and deciding on parts, but i only want to do this once and not have to redo everything when each part is added, so i am assuming i should be putting in that ford 8.8, SYE kit, CV Shaft, and all the gearing conversions on all at the same time.
I got a bit of work ahead of me, i better keep collecting the parts.