Folks,
My son's 80 Spit has a distinct lean to the left at the rear ... and I
assumed we needed a new rear spring: having taken one from our parts car,
and put in on the car over the weekend> Still sags (but the parts car
didn't!).
HINDSIGHT: I should have put axle stands under the front of the car to
check whether the front suspension was the problem! With the stands in
place, the back is level!!
QUESTION: Any advise on what to look at the front of the car that might be
causing the passenger side appear very high compared with the drivers
side. I noticed references to an aluminium packing piece in todays digest:
we don't seem to have any packing pieces on either side!!
Any help, and any typical dimensions, will be gratefully received!
Tony
ps - discovered a trick when installing the rear spring - well: a trick for
me - for making it easier to put insert the 4 diff studs -- before
installing the spring from outside, put 2 of the studs in place first: this
stopped the lower plate moving around so the studs could more easily be
located -- the darned thing kept moving so much in attempt 1 that we
couldn't install the studs at all!
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