Jerry,
I am assuming you are using rubber bushings. Those are designed to
compress, however if you are reusing old ones, one or the other or both
may be deformed or hardened. If so, consider a $10-20 upgrade and go get
urethane bushings from your local speed shop. Take one of the rubber
ones that is in relatively original shape along to measure from. A lot
of the standard sizes are easily available. Urethane will last a lot
longer, distort less and your Koni's will work better. It's possible but
a bit more difficult to find urethane for the bottom mount of Koni's
too.
Jerry wrote:
> I'm putting this out to the group for some assistance. I'm rebuilding
>
> the front suspension and had to replace shocks. I've put a new shock
> and coil spring (old) together but funny thing is that after
> tightening
> the nut on the shock to compress the spring the bushing on the outside
>
> of the top plate is heavily compressed while the the bushing
> underneath
> the top plate is not. Will this correct itself when installed on the
> car or do I need to do something? I'm sure I didn't flip the
> bushings.
>
> Jerry - 1968 GT-6 MK1
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MZ
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