Front Spring Removal & Rebuild

I finally got around to taking out the front leaf springs on the Scout. Not as bad as I thought it would be, considering I didn't even have the right tools for the job. Unbolting the springs is no big deal, suspend the differential, unbolt the u-bolts and then the spring perches and your basically done. The hard part is removing the old twisted, rotted, rusted bushings. Usually one would use a c-frame bearing press but of course I don't have one and I didn't feel like buying or renting one so I had to pay for it with sweat. Luckily, I didn't have to shed any blood or tears, the bushings came out fairly easy considering their age and condition.



The passenger side leaf spring is missing two leafs compared to the driver side and apparently the center pin/bolt broke off and that is why the leafs had slipped out of place. I looked around and asked in the forums for used replacements or someone in my area that rebuilds leafs spring but I had no luck.





After further research, consideration of final use of the Scout and monetary limitations I decide rather than fix the passenger side leaf by adding the missing leafs I'll just rebuild them and instead remove two leafs from the drivers side spring pack. You can see the leafs I removed, two from the very bottom, the smallest ones.



Below you can see the bushings I hammered out. I'll be replacing them with polyurethane bushings.