| Re: question about spring retainer length when lowering? |
Subject: Re: question about spring retainer length when lowering? by turbotim23 on 2009/12/4 21:07:11 Hi What I did was put car jacks under tires so some of the the car weight was on the tires before tightening retainer bolts as manual said car had to be on ground when doing that.I was wondering if I had too much pressure on tires when I tightened retainers as the one retainer snapped when I let pressure off that tire. I knew that the retainers were short so I sliped two 1/16" body shims under each side of the retainers to make up for being too short. It worked on the pass side but not the drivers side the side that's high,Probley why it broke. What do you think about slotting the retainer mount holes so I can center the spring?I don't know if centering spring will drop it but I could switch ends on spring first to see if that switches high side.Not really sure what you mean by bottoming out the spring against the chassis. I think it is.I belieive it's hitting the top of spring tunnel.one thing I tried to do was slip a peice of paper and also a hacksaw blade in to see when wedges hit chassis compared to how close and when retainer was to being bottomed out. it's too far out of wack I might have to do something drastic like take the drivers side wedge out completely[3/8" drop maybe] or sand it down[that will give maybe 1/4" drop] or maybe hammer up the spring tunnel above drivers side of spring. The pass side looks perfect right where I want it[26 1/4'] and rear is about an 1" higher for a rake effect.Sorry this got so long but If I can't get drivers side down lowering front was not worth it. Thanks Tim |
