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Bill Sebestyen (Bill308)
Member
Username: Bill308
Post Number: 327
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 9:48 pm: | |
By dialing up your spring perches you will increase the preload, but not the spring rate. Still, if you have 200 lb/in springs fitted and you compress them 0.5 inches, you will have just increased the preload by 100 lbs per axle.
On my 308, the springs are installed under a good amout of preload, several hundred pounds each. Check your service manual and it should tell you the spring rate and the free and fitted lengths. From this information, you can calculate the magnitude of preload at full droop.
It could be that your vender didn't get your spring lengths right. This happened to me when I fitted adjustable shock assemblies with Eibach springs in the rear of my 308. My vender was kind enough to swap the 12-inch springs for 14-inch springs, at no charge except shipping one way. Neither they, nor I, took preload into consideration. It was a silly mistake, I and they should have caught it. |
Henryk (Henryk)
Junior Member
Username: Henryk
Post Number: 193
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 8:51 pm: | |
My 83 Boxer sits a little lower in front than in the back.....is this normal? The suspension has new Eibach spings and new Koni shocks. While on a lift I raised the front slightly, by turning the 2 spanner nuts, but, to raise it any more would mean that I raise them with compression on the spring.......this, I feel, would stiffen the ride. Am I wrong? I raised the back to where there is no compression on the spring, but I feel that I don't want to raise the front, to where there IS comprssion on the spring. Possibly lower the back?
In pictures that I have seen the ride height appears level.
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