Gentlemen …
Everything was fine and then my power steering rack started leaking so … I fixed that. Even though I used my homemade alignment “toe” jig I still couldn’t adjust the steering to that sweet spot. So a professional alignment is in my future.
But before I have that done I had to make sure all the shock absorbers and coil springs matched up. A year ago I purchased 2 new rear coil springs and 2 new Bilstein shocks. I installed one side right away but never got around to doing the other side … so I just finished that. I previously installed new Bilsteins shocks on the front about two years ago (but still have the original front coil springs).
But before I get that pro alignment I need to have the car ride height sorted out. Side to side the front heights don’t match and side to side neither do the rears.
The car has never been in a collision so I rule that out. Also since I have a brand new set of the same coil springs and same shocks in the rear with the same thickness spacers I think I can rule out the rear as the problem. Which leaves the front springs.
After experimenting it appears that if I can lower the right front of the car about 1/2" it will get ALL the measurements pretty close. Right now the left rear is about 3/4" lower than the right rear.
But how to do that. Getting the front spring out isn’t easy but it is DIY doable. The trouble is the type of front springs on the car can’t be cut.
The Jaguar type spring on the left has a flat seat so it can’t be cut as apposed to the type of coil spring on the right. This uses a specially shaped spacer to seat the spring flatly and can be cut.
I don’t want to put a new set of springs on the front because I don’t want to raise the ride height !!
So any ideas ??
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