Rear Suspension inverted?

[Jeuke]

This is something I have wondered for the life of my Roadster. Have had no issues with it, but I know it's wrong. The rear leaf spring adapters are inverted. That's about 4" of travel. Anyone ever seen this before? How to I set it back to normal? Replace the leaf springs and shocks?

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[Habitat.pat]

Happens more often than you’d think. To fix it you can either pull the shackle mounts loose from the frame “, invert the shackles & bolt them back in or remove the bolts at the front of the springs & invert them.

After doing that I’d also check that there is enough travel on the shocks, no telling if the PO inverted the shackles as a “cure” for something else. The rear springs look ok, they are pretty flat normally.

Peace,
Pat

[redroadster]

They can be re arched
I found a KC Whitney 620 Datsun helper spring ,added to the pack lifted mine to fit wider tires, my shackles were reversed

[Jeuke]

I was looking at the help springs solution, where would they be installed? between the axle and the frame? over that rubber bumper on the axle? Or somehow over/around the rear shock?

As far as reversing that rear shackle back, I'm going to try that and see. The part that confuses me is "remove the bolts at the front of the springs & invert them" there's only a single bolt connected to a hard point on the frame, nothing to reverse.

[Gregs672000]

The easiest thing to do is to look at a picture of the springs in stock configuration and you will be able to see how they go together.

[redroadster]

The rear end of the leaf spring was originally above the top of the shackle ,which makes it lower but with the suspension raised off the ground you could with a large bar flip the shackle where the spring end is below the shackle .
some company made extra leaf springs to add to a 620 Datsun that were curved more and You placed it in the stack bolted tightened up it curved the springs I only used 1 at bottom

[devo]

Pro Comp makes the Add-a-leaf to add to the stack. You may wanna check their website.

[RBMann]

................ The part that confuses me is "remove the bolts at the front of the springs & invert them" there's only a single bolt connected to a hard point on the frame, nothing to reverse.

When you remove the front spring bolt the whole assembly can move making it easier to flip(invert) the rear shackles.