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Stewart

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Weee what a fun sunday. About a quarter of the way through a rear suspension replacement. About to head back down and start installing the left side and then its on to the right side. Have the last pair of 1" lowering springs that brittek was able to get. Should be interesting to see where it ends up.
 
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:devilgrin: too.
 
Well its done and I'm ready for a shower and a beer. Its sitting up slightly higher than before which is good. The inital left side is 14" and the right 14 7/8th. Originaly it was 13 and 13.5 and the front is around 12.5. If its like my other one hopefully it will settle no more than a inch. As soon as it stops raining its off for a test drive. Before the beer.
 
Went through all this about 4 years ago. Bought new rear springs from VB, installed them - and the rear end sat way too high (although I did not measure and have no numbers to report).

I finally moved the lower leaf to the top of the leaf sandwich on both sides (notice, I did NOT remove the leaf - I just put it back in on top so as to keep the original sandwich thickness). I just reasoned that that should take out some arc. It worked fine and gave me the height I was looking for (distance from center of axle to bottom of chrome strip is 15" in the rear and 13 1/2" in the front). If the rear springs ever sag (which I expect they will, eventually), I'll just move everything back to its original position.
 
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