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Old 05-17-2020, 08:54 PM
RedArrow RedArrow is offline
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Originally Posted by ngoma View Post
Thicker, or (more easily found at the JY) doubled shims at the top of the spring. Very Easy to do.
Great great. that`s what i thought.
I`ll look for 2 extra shims for the rear. Thank you

(interesting: IPD is selling some expensive, donut-shaped blue snake lol, a poly crap that gets turned into between the spring coils then attaches by zipties lol kind of ugly. - they are not for my liking)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nppymgbG-YI


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Originally Posted by ngoma View Post
Does it really prove that? Or could it prove the wheel arch design is not exactly identical front and rear?
Good point! I wondered that could be the case also.

For the record,
I measured height at front corner of driver door as 13.5-13.6 then I measured height at the rear corner of the rear door as 13.25 inches. I took both of these measurements from the ground up to the lower edge of the door*. The front axle actually was sitting ``lower`` than the rear, due to a slight downhill slope so that adds too (I meant to say that the car was nose-diving on a hill, facing down)
Looks like I need about 1-1.5cm for the rear...half of an inch. It could be that the rubber `pad`under the spring is really crushed or the upper one can be toast above the spring. I`ll definitely look for new shims/spacers somewhere and do what you said.

https://www.google.com/search?newwin...27941606401406

How thick is this? I cant remember, maybe appr 1cm, right?

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