Totally agree on the sitting up high thing.
My solution was to add blocks between spring and axle - easy and reversible.
Robert N. Blair 65 Yellow BJ8 rnbmail@yahoo.com
--- On Thu, 10/16/08, tomfelts@windstream.net <tomfelts@windstream.net>
wrote:
> From: tomfelts@windstream.net <tomfelts@windstream.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Rear Leaf Springs 64 BJ8 Phase II
> To: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>, "Dan Stromquist"
<dan@warner-associates.com>, healeys@autox.team.net
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 3:23 PM
> If i read your post correctly, It seems you want the car to
> sit down a little in the rear. That was a worry I had when
> I replaced the springs on my BJ8 a few years back.
> So---before installing them, I went to a commercial spring
> shop and had the springs "de-sprung" about 25%.
> Car sits a little lower in the rear and that is the look I
> like. I DO NOT like the side view of a BJ8 sitting way up
> in the rear. Just my likes and dislikes.
>
> tom
> ---- Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dan -
> >
> > The new BJ8 springs after driving around for a couple
> hundred miles
> > will settle in properly. I wouldn't worry about
> it.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > On 10/17/08, Dan Stromquist
> <dan@warner-associates.com> wrote:
> > > List:
> > >
> > > It appears the replacement leaf springs in the
> rear of my BJ8 have to much
> > > arch and are forcing the axil downward to close
> to the frame. I like the
> > > fact that the car sits a little higher for the
> added clearance and the car
> > > sits level now so I am hoping someone has a
> solution which doesn't require
> > > lowering the body relative to the ground to solve
> the problem. Anyone ever
> > > solve this problem before and what was the fix?
> > >
> > > Dan
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