[DML] Continued: Lowering Advice

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We had better get the good from this thread before the moderator pulls
its plug...

You can slice through OEM DeLo springs like a knife through butter (no
joke -- try it on an old one) using a mere hobby tool. They aren't
exactly the strongest component on the car. I've had rivnuts put up
more resistance!

The whole reason I rotated mine was to match the "perch" (LCA spring
cradle). OEM springs are actually cocked funny because their naturally
flat bottom is forced into an installed angle. 

Merely lowering the front end an inch or so isn't going to have any
more effect than driving a stock car with an empty trunk and fuel tank
vs driving it fully loaded.

For the curious: I travel with a trunk full of tools, 3 ton floor
jack, jack stands, wheel blocks, etc (my luggage rides in the seat
next to me). My front end sits just as level as it does empty.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx> wrote:
> On the subject of cutting springs to lower them at least cuting
> them with a cutting wheel is better than a torch. You aren't softening
> them up. The problem is as you shorten the spring you really should
> change the spring "rate". If you don't the car will bottom out easier,
> there is less spring and it is too soft. If when you cut the spring
> and you do not get the angle right then it won't sit right in the
> perch. This can cause the perch to wear or the end of the spring to
> bend or break. Now that you can buy the "correct" springs to lower the
> car most everyone is in agreement that it is a bad idea to cut the
> springs if you insist on lowering.
> David Teitelbaum
> vin 10757 
> 





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