<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}</style></head><body><div>Interesting conversation. I too---for a very short time---worried over the height on one of my cars--my 66 E-Type. She sits 1/2" lower on one side than the other. To remedy that I'd have to pull the torsion bars and re-situate then would have to tweek it a few more times to get it right. that is a BEAR job to do. Then, I really started looking at it and decided that I couldn't tell when I looked at it and no one has ever said a word about it. So-----she still sits 1/2" lower on one side and no one (except those of you who read this:) knows---and I don't fret over it any longer.</div><div>tom</div><div><br></div><div>----- Original Message -----<br>From: i erbs <eyera3000@gmail.com><br>To: Michael Oritt <michael.oritt@gmail.com><br>Cc: Austin Healey <healeys@autox.team.net><br>Sent: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 15:36:45 -0500 (EST)<br>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Ride height, continued<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto">Michael<div dir="auto">Many of us overthink and obsess over things that mzy not be an issue, but we want working or looking right. I spent a month working on a stuck open water valve, i may never shut off, but wanted it working. I now open and close it regularly to keep it from seizing again. Nothing to get over if we have the means and ability to fix it.<br><div><br></div><div dir="auto">Ira Erbs<br>Portland,OR<br>1959 Austin Healey BN4<br>1967 MGB</div></div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 2, 2020, 9:20 AM Michael Oritt <<a href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com">michael.oritt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #3333ff;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;">I am just back from measuring and the car is in fact low on the left </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;">both back<i> AND front </i></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;">(as many of you predicted) by between 3/8" to 1/2" (+/- 1/16").</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;">The actual ground clearance measurements from the concrete floor to the points of intersection of the transverse cross-members and the chassis rails--within the tolerances of a 4' spirit level and a steel tape--are:</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;">Front left: 6-1/8" . Front right: 6-5/8"</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;">Rear left: 7-0" Rear right: 7-3/8"</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;">I don't know the source of the fore and aft rake but I really cannot notice it and in any case it does not bother me. The lean to the left does disturb me esthetically, and btw it is probably a bit greater when I am on board. However, given the tolerances of parts for our cars, etc. I wonder if it is worth doing anything or, in the words of Mick Mulvaney, should I just get over it?</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #3333ff;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #3333ff;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fafafa;">Best--Michael Oritt</span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br><div><br></div>Support Team.Net <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br><div><br></div>Suggested annual donation $12.75<br><div><br></div><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys">http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys</a><a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/archive">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br><div><br></div><a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" data-mce-href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a><br><div><br></div><br>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/eyera3000@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/eyera3000@gmail.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/eyera3000@gmail.com</a><br><div><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>