Frank,
I had a '73 B GT that listed to one side, and I bought a pair of new
rear springs from NOS Locators. Front of car was level, and it had
new coil springs. All of the springs I put on the car made in UK by
the way. I put the new rear springs on the car and the car sat more
uneven than it did with the original springs on it. They sent a
replacement spring for the spring that was the weaker of the
two. That didn't remedy it. Off the car, the springs would match
great, but on the car was a different story. So, I took both of the
new springs to a local auto spring shop, and gave them the specs on
how the car was sitting and they re-arched them. I put them on the
car and it was finally level and looked right. After this
experience, I would just take original old springs into such a place
to start with and not bother with new ones.
I don't know which Cloverdale you are in, but if you are in
California, the shop to go to is this one. There must be such shops
in different cities in the US and Canada.
The shop in Santa Rosa did great work in my opinion.
http://www.springworks.com/
Don Scott
Calistoga CA USA
1955 MGTF
1962 MGA Mk 2
1967 MGB
1963-7 MGB (seeking)
Misc. Japanese cars
springwepdsprinAt 04:31 PM 8/5/2012, Frank Marrone wrote:
>I have a '73 MGB-GT with badly sagging rear leaf springs. Someone even put
>helper springs on the stock springs but it sure doesn't seem to have helped
>much. The back of the car is way too low and looks kind of ridiculous. I
>did some reading and see a lot of complaints about bad quality replacement
>springs that start sagging soon after installation. I'd like to avoid that!
>I'm looking for stock or slightly stiffer than stock spring rate and stock
>ride height. Where is a good place to start looking? Where should I avoid?
>
>Frank in Cloverdale
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