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Duff leaf double eye forward??

DC_Gearhead

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My new leafs just came and I just realized I don’t know what end goes forward. One eye is single the other is double.

What goes forward? I’m working on them now.

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DirtDonk

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Yep. Kept getting asked that question too.
Since the double eye is a safety feature (commonly called a "military double-wrap" eye) it needs to go to the direct frame mount. That mount is the most stable and least likely to also break.

So on our trucks it always goes forward (to the frame mount) but if you ever run across some oddball setup where the shackle is forward and the frame mount to the rear (like the front of an old Jeep or Land Cruiser for instance) then it would go to the rear.
As long as it's at the frame mount (or both) you're good to go.

Paul
 

DirtDonk

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It does get confusing sometimes, even if it shouldn't, because the other eye has a "Berlin eye" shape to the leaf. From the factory, Ford put this eye forward to the frame.
We retain the feature, but the double-wrap eye trumps the Berlin eye location.

Paul
 
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DC_Gearhead

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Yep. Kept getting asked that question too.
Since the double eye is a safety feature (commonly called a "military double-wrap" eye) it needs to go to the direct frame mount. That mount is the most stable and least likely to also break.

So on our trucks it always goes forward (to the frame mount) but if you ever run across some oddball setup where the shackle is forward and the frame mount to the rear (like the front of an old Jeep or Land Cruiser for instance) then it would go to the rear.
As long as it's at the frame mount (or both) you're good to go.

Paul



Totally what I was thinking, but engineers don’t always go with what I consider “logical”. Haha.


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