Broken Front Coil Perch

[Saharacon]

So like the title says I've broken my drivers side coil perch. Just enough to where my spring moved deep into the Grove and actually out of place. It's pretty bad

Any ideas on how to go about fixing this?

 

[WJCO]

Probably have to cut it off and weld on a new perch.

 

[wayoflife]

How long are your shocks man? Looks like your coil just dropped out and rotated past the index. That most likely caused the lip of it to bend down or break. The perch itself is most likely fine.

 

[Saharacon]

Well this is actually the result of bad ball joints creating a terrible death wobble. Which In turn pushed both coils out and of the mounts. So much stress was placed on them the drivers side perch snapped allowing this coil to slide into the that Grove where it sits now shown in the photo above

 

[Saharacon]

And my shocks actually haven't even been tested for full down travel with this setup yet. But I'm rated for 12" I believe for the bilstein 5100s

 

[Saharacon]

I'm pretty much looking at something along these lines then correct?

http://www.synergymfg.com/Synergy-Jeep-JK-HD-Front-Lower-Coil-Spring-Mount-p-25481.html

Is it possible to just get the coil to sit properly again and add some type of retainers? We do this alot on xjs.

 

[Saharacon]

Any other advice?

 

[Pyro1415]

Any other advice?

Honestly since you have to weld new brackets anyways I would just pull the coil and do a build up weld. Shouldn't be hard with a stick and pretty easy with Mig. Stick take a fast fill rod and low amps do a couple seconds at a time like 1 or 2, then grind it down, mig just low amps.