U-bolts don't care what they are on... if the axle is 3" diameter and the right length the ubolts will work... I bought new ones from mancini with the flat spot also.
No problem, i also didn't want the round ones, don't like the dent they leave..
They say the universal u bolts are round at the op where the bolt contacts the top of the axle tube. This will crush in the tube. That is why it is important to have the right u bolts. From what I have read.
I've never understood what the big stink is about the flat u bolts anyway. It's not like they can hold any better than the round ones. Since the spring perches are WELDED to the axle tubes, the rear end cannot rotate regardless of WHICH u bolts are used. It's much ado about nothing.
Oh for God's sake, Dave. Find another argument. As long as you torque the u bolts correctly, you have zero issues. Now if you're stupid on the other hand.........pressure applied to the tube under the U bolt U = Force/Area
spread the force over a wider area = less pressure
i.e a perfectly round U clamp tends towards an infinitely small contact patch on the axle tube massive pressure over a small area causing damage to the tube
fat flat U bolt spreads the force over a wider area for the same torque on the nut
contact patch has an impact on friction between the two clamped items
bigger patch results in more friction up to a point.
not really about Tubes rotating at all. if it gets to that point all is lost.
U bolts need to provide enough friction between perches and the saddle on the spring so that the rivet or bolt that holds the spring together is not put into shear stress by the action of the perch-hole against its head when car is under acceleration.
i presume the torque specified for the mopar set up and a round U bolt resulted in kinked axle tubes and it didn't for the flattened u bolts
they won't have F++ked about doing an extra process that costs money when making the U bolt if it wasn't considered necessary for the intended use
but i do note that mostly nobody else did this....
Chrysler obviously had their "Extra care in engineering" reasons to spend that cash.
or maybe they just had a really **** bending machine
Dave
Chrysler has used round ones longer than that. lol I swear, people find the stupidest things to worry about. LOL
Yep, I know all this.
"BUT I DO NOTE NOBODY ELSE DOES THIS" yeah.... that's what i said
every other car and truck maker with leaf springs has no problem....... my experience will be different from yours....
I wasn't sayin YOU were bein stupid. I was makin a general statement."BUT I DO NOTE NOBODY ELSE DOES THIS" yeah.... that's what i said
If i was being stupid i would have let you get away with saying chrysler always used round U bolts, in my experience, which i guess will be less than yours, they most certainly didn't. I've been around enough rusted out wrecks from the US Australia and SA here in the UK to know this. dug through the piles of mopar shite at the swap meets left over from all the cars your US servicemen didn't take home.... been 1000s of you here since the 1940s and you all bring your cars, cant afford the fuel, or don't like driving on the wrong side of the road, park em till they rust and leave them behind.... I have learned that if its rusty with knackered threads and a ridiculous price tag proclaiming originality, it will be the flat waffly type
i might ramble on a bit but there is usually a reason based in truth or something that i genuinely believe based on experience
Dave
