Car Ride Height
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- What to do if your new suspension has your car too high tall
Episode 481 Autorestomod
If your new coil springs make the car sit to high. Is the Spring the Problem. We talk about things that can go to make ride height on your muscle car better.
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Glad you guys are still pumping out quality videos. Thanks for your work!
I’ve gotta get my roller perches on. Got the diy kit and went together very nice. Guess oil fill shocks are next. Thanks guys
Thanks guys, On my 79 T-bird the drivers rear sags about 1"+ compared to the rh side. I've replaced coil springs, shocks, bushings, even tried to shim the bushings up on the lh rear with no luck, just can't get that much lift into it. Going to order a 3/4" spacer to install on top of the coil spring and try that.
My wife and I took the original style shocks and put on gas shocks all away around, we also added 1/2 inch to new rear leaf springs. We achieved a very nice ride height and very stable ride and it actually goes over railroad tracks better than our Honda Accord. 68 Mustang. We love the ride and vacations with the car, we love it as much as we did when they came out new.
Great tips. Thanks.
I wanted to lower the front of my old Chevelle so I swapped the small block for a big block and it worked like a charm.
Great points! I know we expect perfection when we upgrade our suspension from a stance perspective but a little patience is important while everything settles in. Resisting the urge to break out the cutoff tool and start trimming coils is probably a good idea ;)
NPD...You couldn't ask for better/faster service. I ordered a set of door handles, and pads from them for my 83 F100...lo and behold, I opened the pads..no driver side, all the pieces were there, just all for the pass side.I should add, no fault of NPD, it was a sealed pkg. Called the 800 number, stated my delima, sorry for the inconvenience, we'll send you another set and be sure you have a right, and left....This was friday at about 4PM, the following Tues, had set with r/l pads, all is good, nice handles,fit good,looks good.
Hello 🤗 there gents, just caught this one, it's a nice classic car remedial learning segment..
On my 70 ranchero the ride height was a inch and a half too low. Instead of installing thicker urethane upper spring seats. I pulled the spring up with a compressor. I changed the spring perch pressed in bolts to grade 8 bolts a little longer. I also got some grade 8 flat washers. I put flat washers under the spring perch on top of the control arm. And a grade 8 washer under the control arm to spread the load of the nut. This allowed me to fine tune the ride height precisely.
Biggest NO-NO I see is tightening the control arm bushings and spring hangers on the hoist with everything hanging..... I'm so game for a show on stupid crap on the interwebs.
love all of your videos, especially the camaro videos
Now I understand why my brother said to not tighten up the control arms all the way until we set it down 🤔
With the Shelby drop, I turn the steering wheel back and forth and the the body settles to ride height. Simple.
When we took the springs out of our car, they were two different diameters and one of them obviously had a torch applied to them because a portion of the coil had a slight S / flat spot in it.
Yes indeed this all happened to me. I have a 68 Mustang coupe and I put all new front suspension on except for the coil springs. I used KYB gas shocks on the front and back. It looks like I built a rocket and have it aimed for the moon. I hate the height and have been thinking I would get lowering coils and do the shelby drop also. It is really frustrating to spend all that time and money to end up with it jacked up so high in the front. I did do as ya'll suggested and took it to have everything tightened properly plus front end alignment but it's still way up in the front !!
An episode on how to straighten a chassis at home? 67 Mustang was rear ended and modern shops either don't do old cars or $$$
I just rebuilt the suspension on my 2010 Challenger - never done this kind of thing before. Replaced the control arms upper, both lower, end links, tie rod ends, ball joints, Bilstein struts (stock springs, new isolators, bellows) I "thought" I had the control arms fairly level, but I think now that may not be the case, especially when I was trying to get all of the components to line up to tighten up. I only drove it for about 30 miles, but it's about 3 inches higher that it was before. Bilsteins went out back, but no rise in the back.
I have a 68 Cougar with a slight reverse rake. I just assumed the rear end was down a little. But.... It's an original 390 FE car but now has an aluminum intake as well as new gas shocks. So it may just be riding a little high in the front from weight reduction etc... No Shelby drop yet but wondering if the Shelby drop with roller spring perches would lower it some and be just right? Time will tell. Thanks for all your cool video's guys!
I wish he could talk about front wheel drive with struts....