Reverse eye main leaf

[LordDevlin]

Hi folks,

I am still looking at how I am going to lower my truck progressively and thought I had my plan set to start on this. I was going to get new reverse eye main leafs for both sides, and then remove a couple leaves. I bought a couple old leaf spring packs to do the work to so that I could leave the originals as is. When I got them shipped and opened the box, I noticed something that I was not expecting. It seems as though at the back end of the front springs, the second (from the top) leaf wraps around the eye of the first.
This causes an issue for my plan to simply replace the main leaf with a reversed eye main leaf.

I looked all over and didn't see anything really on what ppl have done in the past for his so I was wondering if I could get some insight from the board.

Do I simply cut the second leaf near the aft end at the same spot that the fore part of the leaf stops and scrap the part that goes around the eye, and then put my reverse eye main leaf in? Can I circumvent this second leaf eye another way? I would prefer to leave the second leaf in the pack, or should I consider making it one of the leafs I remove?

Help please!