Well, I guess that most of you never ever worked on anything that had leaf springs? You have the U bolts in wrong and the plate with the hole in it goes on the bottom with the hole over the end of the thru bolt-the u bolts clamp arond the leaves, not beside them----- Sorry that you seem to be offended, but the idea of these sites is to share info and help others from doing some basic auto engineering stuff in a manner thats gonna maybe cause some mayham on the roads-------