TJ Rear Coil Fix?

[uvaldetxj]

Hey guys,

I've been having some problems keeping my rear coils from falling out.
It seems that whenever I articulate, it overarticulates. Right now my TJ is sitting about 4" high, i'm running 3" lift XJ shocks in the back and they're really long! My coils have only came out whenever i've taken off the rear swaybar, since then i've had it on. Some of you might say to leave it on, but the jeep has a whole lot more wheel travel with it off...

I wanted to know if anyone here knows of a product or a homebrew idea, on how to keep the coils from falling out. A similar idea that came to my mind was a spring clip, how xj's have them on the front coils. The other idea was drilling out some holes and using small u-bolts to hold them down.

On another note, has anyone tried using the stock front coils in the rear? IIRC you can use stock XJ coils on the back of a ZJ.
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2006 LJ Soft Top
4 Inch Bastard
33 BFG MT
14,XXX
Stock Everything Else.
1987 XJ 2 Door-Chopped Top
3 Inch Rusty's
33 BFG MT
Dana 44 Rear-Lincoln
173,XXX
Still Running Solid.

 

[2000xjclassic]

Have you thought about using some type of coil spring retainer like this

This set is from ballistic fab but they shouldn't be too hard to fab a set up or they have a set for TJs(both frame and axle side)

Chris