I was wondering. Does the rear look like it's suppose to be sitting with rb springs?




When installing the rear i lowered the axel a bit and pushed down on the rear control arms to get the original springs out. I then put the new ones in and aligned them so that they were sitting right on the bottom..the rubber insert on the top never came down and I didn't take it down...was i suppose to?


Ron

 

You replaced 25+ year old springs with lowering springs. Basically, 25 years of sag. Some people have even replaced stock springs with lowering springs, and the car rose up.

 

yea my stock springs sit like its been slammed, so that looks about right. if you look at some other guys pics it almost look like the back has been raised, but that is not the case.

 

I'd bounce on the rear and make sure the springs are seated. The car looks fine to me. When I put my rear springs on as well, I didn't have to do much besides push down on the side I was installing. The rear has a decent amount of travel when it's off the ground and will let you do that with lowering springs.

Another things I would do is to measure the 4 corners from the ground to the fender lip along the center of the wheel. This will tell you how close the 4 corners are to each other. With my old 23+ year old springs, they were off by as much as 1.5" from each other. After the new springs, they were within about .5".

 

Hmm..ok

 

Make sure you didn't end up with a rubber bushing stuck up inside the shock tower. Happened to me when I put the RB springs in. The bushing had adhered to the metal, and added about 1 1/2 inches ride height to one side of the car. Lucky for me, I realized I had an odd number of bushings when I collected all of the old parts or I might have never figured the problem out.

 

Kentetsu, does RB recommend removing the rubber things? Or is it just what some people do to lower their car a little when installing the RB springs?

 

No, these were just bushings that were replaced along with the new shocks. The old ones should have come out when pulling the shocks, but like I said, one of them was stuck to the metal. That meant that I had an extra bushing in the setup, which raised the ride height of the car on one corner...

Now that I think about that, he never stated if he replaced the shocks, or even removed them, so maybe none of this even applies to his issue.

 

Oh, I see. You were talking about shock rubbers, not spring rubbers.

 

i replaced my old shocks with new blues

 

when installing the blues..i made sure that the rubber bushings were taken out..i just forgot for the springs themseleves...made sure the bottom sat right..never pulled the top boot down though..

 

My SA sits higher on the RB springs than it did on the stockers.

That's the consequence of replacing worn-out suspension components.

It also had a fairly profound rake from front to back.

 

make sure that rubber piece that sits on top of the spring comes out, its shaped to fit the spring so it may not be sitting right, or the edges of it could have rolled up and got stuck in between the spring and the body. My car sat about the same height with new RB springs as it did with the old ones, and it looks pretty much like yours does, but make sure they are seated.

 

Thank you