AzPete
Well-Known Member
Went over to Midlife's small/crowded garage on Sat am to lower the front of my '66 about a inch or so. We cut half +1" off a coil and it all seems good for now. Did a minor alignment adjustment and all is good. If I ever pull the springs again, I may do another 1/4 coil cut off which I don't see in the near future.
Don't ask what springs I have as they are a PO thing. The tire size is 195/60/15.
One problem we ran into was with the spring compressor. It seems with the roller perches installed, the normal inside clamp compressor would not allow the upper hooks to go inside the springs. The bolt head of the acme treaded rod would bottom out on the roller bearing casing and not allow the top hooks to close together. The rod was between them. Only solution we found was to shorten the acme treaded rod about an inch or so. This allowed the hooks to touch above the end of the rod, allowing them to slide inside the coil spring mount. Not sure if this a a normal thing but we saw nothing else that would work. Anyway, thanks to Midlife for the garage space and assistance plus allowing his compressor to be modified.
And, here is the difference.
Before...
After....
Just a bit lower now. There are 5 inches difference from the front wheel well (25") to the rear wheel well.
And the Wattles was nice and cold by the time we were done. Started at 8am, finished around 1:30pm I think.
Don't ask what springs I have as they are a PO thing. The tire size is 195/60/15.
One problem we ran into was with the spring compressor. It seems with the roller perches installed, the normal inside clamp compressor would not allow the upper hooks to go inside the springs. The bolt head of the acme treaded rod would bottom out on the roller bearing casing and not allow the top hooks to close together. The rod was between them. Only solution we found was to shorten the acme treaded rod about an inch or so. This allowed the hooks to touch above the end of the rod, allowing them to slide inside the coil spring mount. Not sure if this a a normal thing but we saw nothing else that would work. Anyway, thanks to Midlife for the garage space and assistance plus allowing his compressor to be modified.
And, here is the difference.
Before...

After....

Just a bit lower now. There are 5 inches difference from the front wheel well (25") to the rear wheel well.

And the Wattles was nice and cold by the time we were done. Started at 8am, finished around 1:30pm I think.