[TR] Advice on TR6 suspension

[Frank Burkhart]

I hope this is the right forum for a “Please help” email.

On my TR6, my left front tire rubs on hard right turns and bumps in the road (especially at speed).  Tire size is 205 70 15 and I have spacer in each front spring.  During a recent drive, my son was able to get a photo of the car head on and it does have a minor lean to the driver side.  My first guess is that the springs are original and compressed.  I have attached photos of both the left and right spring showing the bottom 3 coils pretty much totally compressed.  If you look closely, the spacer is about 1/2 up the spring.

Am I correct that the proper order to solve the problem would be new springs and spring packing (polyurethane) - goodparts.com looks like they have a good solution.  Beyond new springs would be changing some of the suspension pieces to allow more room but I’m hoping that won’t be necessary.  I might be able to get away with adding another spacer but springs seem like a better, long term solution.

Am I going in the right direction.

Thanks to all for comments and suggestions.

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