<div dir="auto"><div>I can relate. I too bought my car over 50 years ago. I rebuilt the mechanicals, but could not afford to do the cosmetics and interior untill 15 years ago. </div><div dir="auto">The springs will settle over time.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Ira Erbs<br>Milwaukie, OR<br>1959 Austin Healey 100-6<br> 67 MGB gone</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 4:14 PM Stephen Hutchings via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Well, I’ve put my new leaf springs on and I find, just as I feared I would, that it's a little high at the back.<br>
I’ve been advised to have patience and I should find they settle down somewhat. <br>
I will give it some time, but as I mentioned before I find a lot of BJ8s look as though they’ve been kicked up the backside, and now I’ve got one.<br>
If it doesn’t settle down by itself, I think I’ll use the lowering block method rather than removing leaves. It’s a pretty simple principle and the springs stay at the same rating.<br>
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I went to watch my brother race in vintage events at Mosport Park and I realized, answering questions about my car, that I’ve owned it for fifty years now.<br>
I bought it when I was 19 and it did not look like it does now, but my wife says she misses the days when it was just an old sports car and I didn’t care where I parked it!<br>
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Stephen, BJ8<br>
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