Search around..but no answer.....What are the symptons of a cracked lowering spring?
03-12-2005, 11:37 AM
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Search around..but no answer.....What are the symptons of a cracked lowering spring?
Just recently I installed
a Eibach Prokit with Koni Reds (set to 2 turns in front and 1 in the rear) on my buddy's car (1999 Honda Civic DX Hatch)
the drop on it was 1.5 front and rear..
yet the car is sittin very funny...
when you look at the car, the rear of the Civic looks to be settled, with about 2 finger gap but the front is a different story...
one side of the front has about a small three finger gap but the passenger side looks completley stock, at 4 finger drop...
well after abotu 3 months driving, we thought that maybe they would settle but since it has been three months, the car still looks the same.
The difference in actually measurment, driver Vs. Passenger in the front of the car, the difference is as much as 0.5 inches!!!!!
we have narrowed it down to two things:
1) the lowering spring has snapped or cracked and needs replacing
or
2) the lowering spring has slightly shifter about a quater or not seated properly in the lower cup that it dont sit right....yet the question is, even though it is this small or lets say the spring can move with a swing of hammer.....does this have such a great factor in the height of the car?
a Eibach Prokit with Koni Reds (set to 2 turns in front and 1 in the rear) on my buddy's car (1999 Honda Civic DX Hatch)
the drop on it was 1.5 front and rear..
yet the car is sittin very funny...
when you look at the car, the rear of the Civic looks to be settled, with about 2 finger gap but the front is a different story...
one side of the front has about a small three finger gap but the passenger side looks completley stock, at 4 finger drop...
well after abotu 3 months driving, we thought that maybe they would settle but since it has been three months, the car still looks the same.
The difference in actually measurment, driver Vs. Passenger in the front of the car, the difference is as much as 0.5 inches!!!!!
we have narrowed it down to two things:
1) the lowering spring has snapped or cracked and needs replacing
or
2) the lowering spring has slightly shifter about a quater or not seated properly in the lower cup that it dont sit right....yet the question is, even though it is this small or lets say the spring can move with a swing of hammer.....does this have such a great factor in the height of the car?
03-12-2005, 12:34 PM
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Re: (allmotorEG-SI)
Passenger side always sits higher than the driver side...thats the way hondas are for some reason.
This is why you buy adjustable coilovers and not lowering springs
This is why you buy adjustable coilovers and not lowering springs
03-12-2005, 02:28 PM
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Re: (BauleyCivic)
Ummm yeah...
but I was thinkin that the difference in gap cannot be as much as an inch....
besides it will look better if it was not as much gap, little difference like 0.25 is more acceptable and not as noticable....
anymore ideas?
any one here ever have a cracked or broken spring?
but I was thinkin that the difference in gap cannot be as much as an inch....
besides it will look better if it was not as much gap, little difference like 0.25 is more acceptable and not as noticable....
anymore ideas?
any one here ever have a cracked or broken spring?
03-12-2005, 02:37 PM
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Re: (EL-Driver)
My 99 hatch is like that. With stock springs and lowering springs the front passenger side sat higher than the rest. The only way I could fix it was to get coilovers and even the gap out myself.
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