Eric -
Did you by chance buy "heavy duty" or "high performance" coil springs
for the front? If you installed those with the original aluminum
spacers above them, that would give you pretty close to an extra 2"
of lift in front.
Some (all?) of the heavy duty springs require you to leave off the
front spacers despite what you see in some parts books, or so I have
been told by Dave at TRF and Ted at TSI.
HTH,
Dan
>I put up a simple web page to illustrate the problem I am having with
>wheel/fender gap I described below. Feel free to take a look and share
>your thoughts/solutions. One other thing I thought I would share, the gaps
>were fine before I took it all apart...
>
>http://home.teleport.com/~ebuzz/
>
>Thanks,
>Eric
>
>At 12:37 PM 5/11/02 -0700, Eric Miller wrote:
>>Thanks for all the replies to my tire size question. I decided to go with
>>205/65-15 Yokohamas and had them mounted and balanced last night. They are
>>now on the car and they look pretty good.
>>
>>Now I have another question. I am almost done with a frame-off restoration
>>on this car. The drivetrain is in and the body is back on the frame but
>>the way it sits now there is quite a bit more of a gap between the top of
>>the front tire and the fender opening lip than in the back. I don't think
>>I put anything back together incorrectly during the suspension rebuild so I
>>am hoping this is common and it will settle down once I start driving it.
>>The gap in the front is about two inches more than in the rear.
>>
>>Anyone have any thoughts on this?
>>
>>Thanks,
> >Eric Miller
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