cannot remove rear spring!
This thread is worrying me. I have a set of new lowering springs ready to go on my V6 in the spring/summer. I am dependant on the supplier getting it right and clearly Molecule's has not!! I've NEVER seen a Cally look so high! Fraz is there anywhere we can look up spring heights, standard and lowered? My new springs are unbranded but printed with "BOGE 60-8010 REAR (and FRONT)
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Fortuna
been talking to the supplier, the springs are the right one they said, the numbers on them are correct ( 75860/rear and 75261 front ). I told them it does not look right and the rubber seating on the car are way too small and the spring could move about. Three coils touch each other and the car sits too high.
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Molecule
Molecule,
My car is lowered 35mm on an Apex kit. (the car is sitting on a highly camberd road, but when on the flat it looks a tiny bit lower.....honest!!)
Three of the coils touch on my springs touch and they will move around a tiny bit when theres no weight on the suspension. But i've never had any problems with them in the three years they've been fitted to the car!!!
From your pictures i can't see why the car is still so high with lowering springs fitted. The springs look just like mine, although i fitted mine the other way round (but the writing on them was still the right way up).
It might be worth your while taking the spring out, re-fitting the wheel and moving the suspension arm through it's full arc. Just to make sure that there's nothing stopping it moving right up.
Does the shock absorber move ok??
My car is lowered 35mm on an Apex kit. (the car is sitting on a highly camberd road, but when on the flat it looks a tiny bit lower.....honest!!)
Three of the coils touch on my springs touch and they will move around a tiny bit when theres no weight on the suspension. But i've never had any problems with them in the three years they've been fitted to the car!!!
From your pictures i can't see why the car is still so high with lowering springs fitted. The springs look just like mine, although i fitted mine the other way round (but the writing on them was still the right way up).
It might be worth your while taking the spring out, re-fitting the wheel and moving the suspension arm through it's full arc. Just to make sure that there's nothing stopping it moving right up.
Does the shock absorber move ok??
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TommyC
<!--QuoteBegin-TommyC+--><div class='quotetop'>(TommyC)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->It might be worth your while taking the spring out, re-fitting the wheel and moving the suspension arm through it's full arc. Just to make sure that there's nothing stopping it moving right up.
Does the shock absorber move ok??<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You could take the spring out, bolt the shock back on and use a trolley jack to move it up (the easiest place would be on the bottom of the shock mount right at the back of the suspension arm). That way you'd be checking both at once.......
Just be careful if it does stop cos you could end up jacking the car up off the axle stands and making it unstable!!!!!
Does the shock absorber move ok??<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You could take the spring out, bolt the shock back on and use a trolley jack to move it up (the easiest place would be on the bottom of the shock mount right at the back of the suspension arm). That way you'd be checking both at once.......
Just be careful if it does stop cos you could end up jacking the car up off the axle stands and making it unstable!!!!!
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TommyC
<!--QuoteBegin-Molecule+--><div class='quotetop'>(Molecule)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->got 17" wheels -( 205 40 17 ) and the gap from the arch to the outer tyre is 3 inches
anyone got same setting to compare?
Arms can move ok<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Mine are 17's with 205/40 tyres. Gap is around an inch (ish).
How far do the arms go before they stop?? Have you tried the setup without the powerflex bump stops??
Mine has springs and shocks, powerflex rear anti-roll bar bushes and four irmscher camber correction bushes. That's all that has been messed with on the back suspension of my car.
Do you think they may have sent you some cavalier rear springs instead?? For a car without Independant Rear Suspension (IRS)?????
anyone got same setting to compare?
Arms can move ok<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Mine are 17's with 205/40 tyres. Gap is around an inch (ish).
How far do the arms go before they stop?? Have you tried the setup without the powerflex bump stops??
Mine has springs and shocks, powerflex rear anti-roll bar bushes and four irmscher camber correction bushes. That's all that has been messed with on the back suspension of my car.
Do you think they may have sent you some cavalier rear springs instead?? For a car without Independant Rear Suspension (IRS)?????
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TommyC
1 inch, wow.
Yesterday I stripped it all off 3 times, so good at it now, and tried to move the trailing arms all the way up ( without spring or bumpstop ) and nothing stop them. The *** is still up in the air. I got koni ssk kit, the shocks are ok. Had to refit everything as I need the car today and going away for 5 days. Gonna have to wait now. The suppliers have been helpful and can sort something out when I return. I sent them pics and said it is not right.
Thanks for all the help guys
will post the progress next week
Yesterday I stripped it all off 3 times, so good at it now, and tried to move the trailing arms all the way up ( without spring or bumpstop ) and nothing stop them. The *** is still up in the air. I got koni ssk kit, the shocks are ok. Had to refit everything as I need the car today and going away for 5 days. Gonna have to wait now. The suppliers have been helpful and can sort something out when I return. I sent them pics and said it is not right.
Thanks for all the help guys
will post the progress next week
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Molecule
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