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    4/08/2021 8:05 PM  #1

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA
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    ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    IT SEEMS TO BE RIDING TOO HIGH IT USE TO RIDE LEVEL WITH FENDER LIP NOW ITS 2 INCHES HIGHER. I HAD THEM LOOSEN THE SHACKLE BOLTS AND FRONT SPRING BOLTS AND SPRAYED WD40 ALL BETWEEN THE LEAFS BOUNCED IT AROUND AND DROVE IT HOME JUST A COUPLE MILES GONNA LET IT SET TILL THIS WEEKEND AND TIGHTEN EVERY THING BACK UP.
    DWAYNE SAID HE HAD TO REALLY STRAIN TO GET THE BILSTEIN SHOCKS ON ....MY QUESTION IS WOULD THOSE SHOCKS HOLD THE CAR UP AND MAKE HAVE THAT RIDE HEIGHT OR IS IT GONNA BE THE SPRINGS.
    i TOOK THE OLD SPRINGS AND 2 INCH LOWERING BLOCKS OFF THINKING PUTTING THE REVERSE EYE SPRINGS THAT ADVERTISE THEY WILL BE 2 INCHES LOWER...I MEAN DANG THAT MEANS IF I GOT REGULAR EYE SPRING  IT WOULD BE REALLY HIGH....IT IS DRIVING ME NUTS.  I HOPE IT SETTLES 2 INCHES.

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    4/08/2021 9:18 PM  #2

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    Yeah.........coupla them "crimson-tide-' double D-cup- +size lumnuses honeys should 'put-the-squat' on that Mustang pronto!
    I tink its the sprangz.........not the Bilstens.   
    Let'er settle BILLY.....this time next year it 'should' be down to were you started!
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    4/09/2021 5:53 AM  #3

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    If you suspect the shocks you can always disconnect them and see if the height changes, but I think its just new springs.  You're going to have to drive it to get them to settle.  I just put new leafs in my truck and it sat a bit higher in the rear.  After a week of driving daily its about level again. 

     

    4/09/2021 9:41 AM  #4

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    LOL I DONT THINK MY WIFE WOULD CARE FOR ME TO DRIVE THEM AROUND.

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    4/09/2021 11:15 AM  #5

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    josh-kebob wrote:

    Drive on over to the local Lane Bryant store....pickup a couple of plus sized heffers...put em in the back seat and take em for a cruise...multiple passes on streets with speed bumps will do the trick.....by the time you drop em off the springs will be puurrfecccttt......report back...

      LOL!
     

     

    4/09/2021 11:17 AM  #6

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    I have 4.5 reverse eye springs I installed a couple of years ago.  Mine sat high too.  I ended putting a 1" lower block in.  Made it better.  

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    4/09/2021 12:15 PM  #7

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    Steve69 wrote:

    I have 4.5 reverse eye springs I installed a couple of years ago.  Mine sat high too.  I ended putting a 1" lower block in.  Made it better.  

    Steve69

    MY WHOLE PURPOSE WAS TO GET RID OF THE 2 INCH LOWERING BLOCKS. THESE SPRINGS WERE SUPPOSED TO LOWER CAR 2 INCHES LOWER THAN STOCK....I WOULD HATE TO SEE IF THEY WERE STANDARD EYE.
     

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    4/09/2021 6:19 PM  #8

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    IT SEEMS TO BE SITTING A LITTLE LOWER THIS EVENING
    I MAY DRIVE IT UP THE ROAD AGAIN

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    4/09/2021 6:42 PM  #9

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    Let's see some photos of the car with the new ride height BILLY!

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    4/09/2021 8:39 PM  #10

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    Toploader wrote:

    Let's see some photos of the car with the new ride height BILLY!

    IT WAS LEVEL WITH TOP OF TIRE IF NOT BELOW IT A LITTLE WITH STOCK REGULAR EYE 4 LEAF SPRINGS WITH 2 INCH LOWERING BLOCKS
     

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    4/09/2021 9:45 PM  #11

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    Ya, too high.

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    4/09/2021 9:54 PM  #12

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    Bearing Bob wrote:

    Ya, too high.

    SEEMS STRANGE FOR THEM TO BE REVERSE EYE AND ADVERTISING IT WILL LOWER IT 2 INCHES MOR THAN STOCK.

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    4/10/2021 5:20 AM  #13

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    Whoa... yeah a bit high. I'm not convinced that the springs will sag to what you are hoping?
    Did you have a side picture of the car showing the entire length of the car?

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    4/10/2021 7:14 AM  #14

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    What brand spring did you purchase?   I had those same wheels on my old 66 fastback.

     

    4/10/2021 7:30 AM  #15

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    Did you tighten all spring hardware while still up on jack stands?
    Have any pictures of spring ends while mounted?
    What version of shocks?

     

    4/10/2021 8:32 AM  #16

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    since the wife will frown on the passengers. Try this,  go to HD and buy 6 bags of cement. Drive for a few days with them in the trunk and then just take them back.

    Slammed Big Blue, ran over the varmints that messed with the Stang. Now all is good in the NW
     

    4/10/2021 9:39 AM  #17

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    Cab4word67 wrote:

    since the wife will frown on the passengers. Try this,  go to HD and buy 6 bags of cement. Drive for a few days with them in the trunk and then just take them back.

    I HAD THOUGHT ABOUT LAYING A BLANKET IN TRUNK AND STACKING THESE SOLID LAND SCAPING BLOCKS I HAVE SEVERAL HUNDRED OF THEM I COULD SEVERAL IN IT TILL I GOT TO THE DESIRED RIDE HEIGHT FOR A FEW DAYS AND THEN TIGHTENING THE BOLTS UP .

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    4/10/2021 9:44 AM  #18

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    Nos681 wrote:

    Did you tighten all spring hardware while still up on jack stands?
    Have any pictures of spring ends while mounted?
    What version of shocks?

    HE SAID HE TIGHTENED IT WITH WEIGHT ON THEM,

    (BUT I HAVE THE SHACKLE BOLTS AND THE FRONT SPRING BOLTS LOOSE RIGHT NOW)
    NO PICS OF ENDS,

    BILSTEIN REAR SHOCKS THEY ONLY ONE VERSION OF REAR I WA S GONNA GET THE STREET VALVE FOR FRONT.,
     

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    4/10/2021 9:50 AM  #19

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    RTM wrote:

    What brand spring did you purchase? I had those same wheels on my old 66 fastback.

    I BOUGHT THEM FROM JEGS. I BELEIVE THEY ARE SCOTT DRAKE  5 LEAF REVERSE EYE.
    STATES THEY WILL DROP IT 2 INCHES LOWER THAN STOCK.....COULD YOU IMAGINE IT BEING 2 INCHES HIGHER THAN IT IS NOW.

     

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    4/10/2021 9:52 AM  #20

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    I REALLY WANT TO GET IT SETTLED DOWN BEFORE I TACKLE THE EXAUST...I YOOK TAIL PIPES OFF AND IT JUST STOPS IN FRONT OF AXLE AT THE MOMENT 18 YEAR OLD FLOWMASTER 40'S

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    4/10/2021 9:54 AM  #21

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

    Toploader wrote:

    Let's see some photos of the car with the new ride height BILLY!

    IT WAS LEVEL WITH TOP OF TIRE IF NOT BELOW IT A LITTLE WITH STOCK REGULAR EYE 4 LEAF SPRINGS WITH 2 INCH LOWERING BLOCKS
     

    MAYBE I NEED A TALLER TIRE LOL THET ARE 225/55/16

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    4/10/2021 1:34 PM  #22

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    I was researching their springs and decided against them because others had mentioned it was hit or miss with getting things right.

     

    4/10/2021 2:38 PM  #23

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    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

    [COULD YOU IMAGINE IT BEING 2 INCHES HIGHER THAN IT IS NOW.

     
    Well... It would probably end up looking  something like this. Probably not the look you are going for...

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    4/10/2021 2:44 PM  #24

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    If you are saying that the rear fender arch lip was about level with the top of the tire, then this is quite a difference and you probably dropped your ice tea when you first saw it.
    I am still not convinced that you can get a spring to sag that much? I'm happy to be wrong here, but maybe you need to have the springs reset by a blacksmith?

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    4/10/2021 5:29 PM  #25

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    Re: ADDED PICTURES HAVE 5 LEAF REVERSE EYE AND BILSTEINS OUT BACK

    Remove the rear shocks and load the trunk with your landscape blocks. Drive it a few days and take a look.
    If no joy..........take a measurement of the LENGTH of the main leaf(as best you can) and compare with your old ones.
    IF the new ones are longer........it won't settle much. They coulda sent springs for later model (67-68)?
    What do those little 10 year old chinamen know about sprangs??? Nuth'in!
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