If you are worried about the car leaning to the drivers side, your focus needs to be on the front suspension, not the rear (with a swing-spring car). The point of a swing-spring is that it swings - it therefore offers no resistance to roll. Well, one leaf is fixed, so it offers a very little resistance, but not enough to cause or to fix a lean to one side. Any roll issues should be addressed by the front springs and/or the anti-roll bar (unless you use adjustable air shocks at the rear, which always strikes me as a bodge that addresses the symptom not the cause, plus front springs are so much cheaper anyway!).
People talk about "rear end drivers side sag". That talk scares me - do you really think the car is only sagging to the drivers side at the back??? Unless your chassis is twisted, it should be leaning by exactly the same amount at the front!!! Because of the styling of the car, it tends to be more visible at the rear, so I guess that's why this phrase arises. What worries me is that people think that, just because the sag is more visible at the rear, it must be the rear suspension that needs fixing... Richard 2009/11/9 Dennis Reese <[email protected]> > I've been following this thread because my 1500 suffers from driver's side > rear end sag and my next project is to fix it. I've been told to "replace > the spring itself", "replace the shocks", "do both", "replace the front > coils". I had planned to replace the spring, but after reading what Greg has > done i wonder if that might be the solution. Any advice, thoughts from the > experts? > > Thanks, > Dennis _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html You are subscribed as [email protected] [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
