[Mgs] Ride height

[h.duinhoven at planet.nl]

Good information from you and Robert - thank you.

 

Now the story.

In the past my exhaust hit the speed bumps so often, that I did not consider
a stainless exhaust because of the cost to replace. In the years I owned the
GT the problem became worse.

During my holiday trip to England in 2011 the exhaust severely was damaged
by hitting a speed bump, when I turned on a parking spot at a hilltop of the
Peak District - see picture below.



At the end of the trip the exhaust support bracket broke of and I had to
make a temp fix, before driving onto the ferry. 

 

3 years ago I got an MOT safety test fail on the sagged rear springs, so
these were replaced.

>From that moment on the car looks a bit like a dragster with the rear higher
than the front.

 

So I should look for replacement front coils.

During the restoration job I have done the front suspension job before, so
that is not a problem.

 

P.S. U.S. lister may notice the Cape Cod Car Club emblem at the hatch
handle.

That was a gift I got from a nice lister visiting the Boston area in 2000.

 

Cheers,

Hans

 

 

Van: PaulHunt73 <paulhunt73 at virginmedia.com> 
Verzonden: maandag 3 mei 2021 14:26
Aan: h.duinhoven at planet.nl; mgs at autox.team.net
Onderwerp: Re: [Mgs] Ride height

 

Depends what load they are asked to carry!  The factory only allowed for
150lb per person, I wonder how many of us are that weight these days.

 

When I got my roadster I wondered if the springs had sagged as they were
almost 'flat' with the car on the ground, replaced them and the new ones
were almost the same.  30 years later no change, that's on a chrome bumper.
They were OEM springs which have not been available for many years, first
people in America and later here started talking about how much new springs
jacked up the rear, to the extent that they had to put loads of weight in
the boot to compress them enough to get the rebound straps fastened, which
is completely wrong.  rubber bumper springs are harder to carry the extra
weight, and V8 springs harder still and they do have a curve with the car on
its wheels, but I have never had to weight down the back to get new springs
fitted to CB, RB or V8.

 

The lower the car the better the handling, it's only a problem if the
exhaust grounds and the suspension bottoms over typical road surfaces.

 

PaulH.

----- Original Message ----- 

 

Do springs (leaf springs especially) tend to sag is decades?

 



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