Just a hypothesis:
Your rear wheel alignment may be off. If the wheels were tilting towards each
other at the front, backing up would make them want to pull apart from
each other, which thanks to the swing-arm geometry would pull the car down.
In theory, the opposite would happen when you went forward...
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 09:12 AM 6/16/00 -0400, you wrote:
>On my spitfire I have a problem with the rear wheels scraping the fenders.
>I have 7 inch rims on the back running 205/60/R13's. The problem is when
>backing the car squats down several inches!. First is that normal? second
>is there a way to counteract it? I have the air shock conversion on the car
>and it helps but is not a cure. It only happens on the drivers side (for
>obvious reasons). While backing the very edge of the tires are catching
>the fender and digging in slicing them up. Just trashed one.
>
>I know that 7 inch rims are too big, however they are very nice rare
>Appliance Industries wheels and I would like to keep them, (unless someone
>can tell me where to get a smaller pair).
>
>My solution at this point is to keep the air shocks very well inflated. I
>am preparing to order new tires and am looking at 195/60/13's which are
>1/2" shorter and 1/2" narrower. something else I am contemplating is have
>the machine shop shave the mounting face of the wheel down to bring the
>offset more into the wheel well. There is about an inch of aluminum at that
>point. Is there someone that knows how much I could get away with taking
>off? (Barry you out there?) .
>
>What other solutions are there?
>
>Patrick Bowen
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