Dose anyone know what U-bolt and spring plates I should ask for, and where? I am doing a SOA on my YJ with the following axels:

Front: out of a 72 K5 blazer. 44-5F 1/2" thick tubes. All new dana shafts
with new 5-760X joints. Spare stock shafts with 260X joints. 4:56 gears
with
new carrier and lockright. Flat top knuckles with only passenger side
drilled with 1" stepped arm from Extreme Off Road, new ball joints. New
Warn
Premium hubs and a set of drive flanges.

Rear: out of a 86 2wd F150 9" Big bearing 31 spline. 66" wide new full
spool, 4:56 gears and bearings.

Seems everywhere I ask for u-bolts and plates they are like WTF are you talking about. Any help will be apreciated.
Thanks!
Ryan :flipoff2:

Rear: click here (http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42910)

Front: Uses 2.75" tubing. Just get some factory spring plates from a wrecker...sheesh. Call James auto wreckers in Antelope. They have them

Thanks for the quick reply. Great Idea!!

Just go to pick and pull, Pull the front chevy spring plates and Ubolts from both sides

Or make your own springplates out of some 1/2 inch plate

When I did the solid axle conversion on my Toy, I wanted to be certain I'd get the exact right U-bolts. So i took the pring plates I had, and the front axle, and loaded them into the back of my Toyota.

Checked the yellowpages under SPRING, found "custom spring, inc." and gave them a call. An hour later, I drove home with some brand new (not all-stretched-out off of some rusty junkyard toyota) 9/16" U-bolts, which fit perfectly.

Originally posted by Dr. Evil
When I did the solid axle conversion on my Toy, I wanted to be certain I'd get the exact right U-bolts. So i took the pring plates I had, and the front axle, and loaded them into the back of my Toyota.

Checked the yellowpages under SPRING, found "custom spring, inc." and gave them a call. An hour later, I drove home with some brand new (not all-stretched-out off of some rusty junkyard toyota) 9/16" U-bolts, which fit perfectly.

Sounds like a lot of work for something a quick micrometer measurment could tell ya ;)

Sounds like even more work than calling your local 4x4 shop and ordering a set of u-bolts for a '72-77 1/2T Chevy Pu (2.75" tubes) or '78-86 Pu (3" tubes) and rear bolts for an '86 F-150.

Then you get nice cad-plated bolts... nuts washers..... even a set of shims :D

Plates are best sourced at parts yard or just build them.

the problem with ordering them for the original donor vehicle is length, I had to get longer ones made for my front when I swapped springs in front cause the new springs were 4 leaf instead of two and the u-bolts were too short. in the rear I have to buy shorter bolts cause the rear packs were originally 12 leafs and are now 4 leaf. if you have an original take it to the spring shop they can make em from that with a length specification, in my case I told him 2 inches longer and they were perfect.