Spitfire Why Doesn't My Spit Sit Level

[doates]

Hi everyone,

My Spit sits lower on the right rear and high on the left front. Could it be a bad shock? Could I have put something together wrong? There were no obviously bent parts when I dis/reassembled. Haven't found a level spot to do any real measuring on yet.

Thanks in Advance

Dennis

 

[tdskip]

What condition are the springs and shocks in?

 

[tomgt6]

I would start with the rear spring. This can then effect everything else. Most likely you rear spring is just wore out. Then if the front still shows the same thing then I would replace the front springs.

 

[Richter12x2]

Well, if it's like the GT6, there's a funky spacer on the front spring perch so that the car (supposedly) sits level with a 200 lb driver and a full tank of gas. Could that be it?

 

[Andrew Mace]

Spitfires normally did not have the extra spacer. It was present on LH steering GT6s primarily because the fuel tank is also on the LH side of the car.

 

[hondo402000]

I dont think shocks have effect on how level a car sets, they are just as they say absorbers, unless they are gas pressurized then they could have some effect but only if one looses its gas

Hondo

 

[Deleted member 8987]

That was a "feature" on a Spit, wasn't it? So all the water that leaked in would run over to the floor drain?

 

[booley]

:lol:

 

[71MKIV]

The classic "lean".

Couple things could be causing this.

the rear spring has issues, either the interleaf seperators have gone away, or there's a leaf busted somewhere.

There's a front spring weak or busted,

frames twisted

Yours is unusual in that it's backwards from most. Usually a Spit sits low on the drivers side.

Rear spring is where I would start. Swap it end for end and see if the lean goes the other way. Not hard, can be done in a hour and a half if all the hardware comes out clean.