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Some of you guys have seen the pics of the front steering and suspention on my Jeep. I would like to do what Alex suggested, and change the steering to high steer componants. However, I am have one jeep of a time finding the flat top knuckles to do this. I have read alot of things about people taking their existing knuckles and having them milled down, but have heard all bad things about this. So I will not be doing that. Also I need to replace the flat leaf springs that are in the front. So my question is, should I nix the front leafs all together, and go back to coil spring? And if I did this, would it eliminate the need for high steering? I only want to fix this front end once, so I want to fix it properly the first time.

Thanks
Shannon


Here are some shots of the front end, the way it is now.

if it was me i would cut off that thing that the leaf spring is mounted to and if you still want to keep leaf springs build something new.

That is definately happening, weather I keep the leafs or not.

Coils or leafs, you will still have a big drop in the steering linkage. The advantage to coils would be that you could at least use a straight link

But in my experiences a straight link at that angle will cause bad bump steer. I'd try to find the knuckles like you need and do it right. I'd also go back to coils in front

so you would do leafs and coils in the front?

Personally yeah. I just like coils. You don't have to worry about axle wrap or kinked springs. Most you have to worry about is bent links

I'm with Joe on this one...go back to coils. Spring over leafs are going to make you want to get rid of the Jeep before you get them right.

The advantage of the coils is going to be your link setup to keep anything in line. Are all the brackets still in place for the links?

No, I would have to get new brackets in order to go back to coils.