The CalTracks are there to help you with WHEEL HOP --- not really "traction" bars .... They'll keep the leaf spring from wrapping up and creating the wheel hop - which if you experience violently -- will break parts like no tomorrow! Leave 'em on -- just get 'em set right.
NOW TO MY CONCERN.... maybe you explained it wrong - or I read it wrong -- but here's what I'm concerned about.
On the TOP of the spring - there should be a small "post" which fits into a hole in the spring perch mount on your axle. This is there to INDEX the rear end to the center of the springs (fore and aft). The U bolts simply hold the perch tight to the spring. The perches are welded on the axle tube with the correct (stock location from the factory) pinion angle (again - this is as from the factory when built).
My issue is I don't think you should have been able to move the AXLE fore or aft -- if it was properly indexed on the posts! Maybe the posts are missing?????
In order to see them -- you'd have to loosen the U bolts enough to allow the axle to go up away from the spring enough for you to see them (probably 1/2" or more). They need to be in place of your axle will move on the spring and just be out of alignment again.
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