Good source for new rear leafs?

volaredon

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97 XJ. Not really interested in junkyard ones. I they have the wheels off and them propped up so I couldnt tell if they are any good. I DON'T like doing anything over again. So i am looking at new. I know you guys don't wanna hear this but I'm looking at stock but heavier duty replacements this is wife's daily driver. the current ones are arched way the wrong way between the front mounts and the axle.
I was looking on Feebay and also checked out JCWhitney (I'm close enough to go there and not pay shipping) and none include bushings. Extra cost W-T-F?
Who is a good reasonably priced source? (not necessarily the "cheapest"; I plan to have this thing around several more years)
A set of known, good, used takeoffs (maybe someone who has lifted theirs and replaced the leafs for the lift) would be considered. I got a set for a buddy that way, last year.
I'm afraid of the add a leaf solution with how my current main leaf is going the wrong way already. I wouldnt mind 1-1/2 rise but given the cond of the current springs stockers might give me that anyway.
 
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Greets from Alaska.., lol, this is my very first post on this site! Consider an end to mental debating, (This site won't let me post the url yet), google the arbusa dot com site, and work your way to suspension, then jeep, and if you want, gain their internal pdf. Once you are fully informed, lol, or fully confused.., contact them, so as to discuss what you need, and to be told as to the nearest distributor around you. There may be another cheaper-less-well-built-popular-'named'; leaf-pack around, but really, what's a few extra bucks to provide your woman a safe ride, and to meet your load choice requirements. The only way I will give up the, (my), XJ is when there are no longer any parts available, or if it is totalled with my blood on the road. The newest vehicles on the market are too complicated for me, and I do not want to drive a glorified socialist obama/nwo electric golf cart. Hence, I replace worn, broken, tired parts with the best quality parts I can find back into my XJ. Similar as to your XJ, my rear OEM leaf springs are 's' shaped, and therefore am going to the above site in order to completely replace with OME, (Old Man Emu), products. I have spent hours researching, and like a lab animal, I have found the cheese at the end of the maze. Good luck.
 
ooh; I dunno now; I love this cherokee, 2nd one i've had; ( my then-16-yo kid rolled and totaled the 01 we had)
but I've found a few things taht make me not so sure about "this" one;
I bought it in a lil it of a hurry mode as my wife needed something to drive after the kid's wreck, between christmas and New years about 18 mo ago;
but I see its been wrecked, took it to the car wash last week (I have tried to be real good about that I want this thing to last) and I see a huge crack in the RR qtr, the whole qtr is BONDO!
that and the fact that I knew there was a very slight amount of bubbling in the paint at the top edge of the windshield; (I think the qtr was a "spot repair", they most definitely didnt repaint the whole thing)
now 1-1/2 years later its alot worse; I'm gonna have to pull the w/s out and bead blast the channel and get it repainted brfore it goes to holes in there; the w/s has been changed and they were plenty abundant with "goop" to glue it in definitely need a new channel gasket;
I am debating sending this one down the road and finding one with the better body.... I mean it has been extremely dependable and only has 122K on it (I was planning on keeping it til at least double that; the one the kid totalled had 170 on it, and til he wrecked it I had no intention of parting with that one either) but if I don't take care of the bodywork "now" (as in over the course of THIS summer) I won't have a jeep left.
I can do the rest but I am NO painter.
 
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