Okay, so what I have here is the rear spring off of a model T. And what I'm going to be attempting to do in this video is reverse the main leaf. You can see this main leaf comes down here and these spring eyelets roll underneath it. What a lot of people like to do is have this spring eyelet on top of the main leaf instead of below it. And what that does is it lowers the whole chassis by a couple inches. That's fairly easy to do on front springs like this that just kind of have a very consistent general bow to them. You just bend the spring the other way. It's a little more tricky though on these springs with the have this high arch in the middle. But I'm going to try to do it. I've never done this before. So I don't really know what I'm doing. I have seen it done online though. So I know it's possible. So what I have here for my setup is got this, this is a pipe fender from Harbor Freight that I have modified. I've got those, these pins across in there with some some pieces still there just to have it a flat spot on the bottom there. I made this little tool to go on top of the ramp here. So this is what I'm going to put the spring in between there and just kind of work it into shape. And hopefully I can get it completely reversed so that those spring eyelets will be on top instead of on the bottom. All right, so I made a template here of the curve that this spring has so I can use this for reference as I'm bending it. And I also made some other reference lines here about two inches apart that I can use to try to make sure that I bend it evenly on both sides. So now I'm going to try to actually bend this. All right, so I've been at this about 50 minutes now and you can see I've got this side pretty well straightened out there. I laid down at 10 feet there. This side's pretty pretty well straightened. So now I'm going to go straightened this bend out and then I'll move on to this middle arch. All right, so now I got this other side straightened out and once you get a feel for how the metal moves it goes a lot fast. That second part only took me about 15 minutes and it turned out really nicely. So now I'm going to flatten out this middle hump here and this is where you have to be careful because if this is going to crack it's going to crack right between this bolt hole right there. So what I made which is probably unnecessary but I made this piece here which just has that little bolt in there on this piece of metal and that goes right there and then I have washer and nut that go underneath there and then this will strengthen that bolt hole right there to make it much less likely to crack. So I'll tell you this on there and then we'll straighten out this middle piece. All right, so I've been at this for a pretty long while now. After I got everything flat I just kind of kept going and now you can see I've got this central arch there but the other way you can see these spring eyelets here are now on top of the spring instead of below it and this lines up with that template I made really nicely there. So now I'm going to make a couple marks here and put in these other two bends to flare these sides out. 6.5 hours later. All right, so I just got to the point where I'm 95% done with this now. What I was doing here is this flat part on each side here I pretty much didn't touch at all this whole time but I do need to put a very slight bow in it arch that upwards very very slightly and so I was doing that I did that to this side I was doing that over here when I found I don't know there is there's a crack right there I put that little bolt under there so you can see it but it runs almost halfway through the spring and I am positive that that did not happen as a result of me bending as because pretty much from here over I did not touch at all there's no reason they would crack right there and not anywhere up in here other than if it was already like that and I definitely didn't hear any high pitched pains while I was bending this that would indicate a crack forming so that really makes me mad though I've been down here over nine hours and I was just just finishing up when I when I saw that so I hope at least this can prove to you that this can be done if your spring isn't already cracked but overall it it turned out it turned out pretty nicely it takes a lot of finesse to get them to line up really nicely it'd be very hard to do if you didn't make a template like this beforehand and I also used this other spring that sits right on top of the main leaf as a template as well to get that to line up with that so so this is just a quick video showing you this process how you can do it at home with pretty simple setup so that's all I have for you this video thanks for watching and I'll see you next time how