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    Right hand sagging rear

    Can you purchase extended shackles to lift the sag out of the right rear? I have fitted new springs and still have the ugly saggy RR.

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    Dan

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    You know that each set of springs is rated differently for each corner, don't you? Are you sure each of the spring sets you purchased are rated differently and that you put them on the correct side? Check the part numbers of the existing front springs. I suspect you may have a drivers side set on your front left.
    But to answer your question, you would need to put the extended shackles on both sets of rear springs which would make no difference to the sag.
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    All Series Landrover springs are handed, that is, there are right and left with a different set. If it leans after fitting new springs, then the springs are incorrect, put on the wrong sides or there is a different problem (see below). Note that front springs will affect lean as well as rear springs. Because there are no sway bars, plus long travel suspension (which enables very good off road performance), and because the driver, fuel tank and battery are all on the right, they usually lean to the right.

    There can be non spring related issues that cause a lean. The most common is worn bushes or broken or badly rusted or worn leaves (which should not be a problem with new springs). But there could be bad repairs to the spring hangers, where the holes have worn and been built up and reamed out - but inaccurately, or there could be chassis repairs that have resulted in incorrect positioning of spring hangers.

    Extended shackles exist (Australian army and also One Ton models), but fitting them to one side is something that would only be done by mechanics that wear a striped apron - and would apply a continuous torque to the axle housing and undesigned loads on U-bolts, although problems from this are unlikely.

    I would prefer to work out what is the actual cause rather than papering it over.
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