Leaf Spring Failure
We had a rear axle passanger side leaf spring fail a few days ago on our TT enroute. Fortunately, we had pulled over for lunch and noticed a lean to the TT. There was no other damage. The mobile te...
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phillyg wrote:
Understand your concern. If it were me, I'd get under there, move everything back into place, and tighten up the u-bolts. Double nut them if you can. Use the best hose clamps you can find, in fact, I'd use 2 or 3 at each end. Check it after 25 miles, and then every 50 miles till you get home and get a proper repair.
First, double nut will keep nuts from turning, but that will not keep U-bolts tight.
And for the people preaching "hose clamps". Have you ever looked at leaf spring? To flex, the leaves must slide lengthwise. If you look at the ends of used spring you can see the marks. And while you are looking notice how the clamp the factory uses works. Pretty rigged to keep the leaves from spinning on thru bolt, but no resistance to sliding end to end. If you clamp the leaves tight you are very likely to break the leaves.
