What springs did you get?

Yeah, no lowering blocks.  I used to see this all the time in the 4x4 world, except they were lift blocks.  You create a lever from the axle housing to the spring and create spring wrap on hard acceleration or make existing spring wrap worse.  The end result can be broken springs, u-joints, and other parts. 

I bought the Eaton springs from NPD p/n 5560-42. My car originally had a 250 six cylinder in it. The springs were already shot when I got It so i put another long leaf in the spring from a 66 that I had. Ive been driving it that way since about 1980 and it worked great. It raised the car so I was level and didn't bottom out. At the bash it was bottoming out pretty good. The new spring improves the ride and makes it smoother but has raised the rear of the car significantly, and I don't like the look. I also can't find any ride high specs.? I didn't even think to compare them side by side. 

I took Steve's advice about the wd 40 and stepped it up a notch AND Not saying to do this but I loosened all bolts and tightened them drove it up and down my driveway left them loose and repeated it a few days with several hundred pounds in trunk. I took them out and torqued the bolts to factory specs...it dropped a little.

Last edited by BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA (1/04/2022 9:25 PM)

I would drive it several hundred miles to make sure they settled before doing anything drastic. I presume you had the weight of the car on the springs before tightening the spring shackle  and front eye bolts. 

To the best of my knowledge ride height can be different even on consecutively numbered cars coming off the assembly line depending on what equipment they came with.
On my car getting it to sit where I wanted I had to cut the front coils and put 1” longer shackles on the rear.
It seems to be a cut and try process,  just don’t cut too much at the start., sneak up on it.
Also playing the devils advocate Mike has no way of knowing the provenance or condition of your existing springs to make a set giving you a 1 inch drop.
He possibly could do that if he had one of your old springs to work from. Just sayin.

Last edited by Rudi (1/05/2022 2:13 PM)

Bolted to Floor wrote:

I would drive it several hundred miles to make sure they settled before doing anything drastic. I presume you had the weight of the car on the springs before tightening the spring shackle  and front eye bolts. 

Who would have thought of that? It was jacked up as high as I could get it so I could get under it and take a nap. I hope it works

I remember my rear springs having stripes on them when I first got it. My front springs and driveshaft still does.