<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 1quickcrx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ok, so ive had my tein s-tech springs on my crx for about a month now. ever since the install, the rear passenger side has been a tad higher than the rest of the car. ive taken apart and put the suspension back together at least 3 times, made sure the spring was seated correctly, made sure the top nut is as tight as can be, yet i still cannot figure this out. i dont know whats going on.



that is the rear driver side, and as you can see, i can barley fit 3 fingers in there (more like 2 and a half)



and theres the passenger rear side, and i can comfortably fit 4 fingers, with still a millimeter of play on eitherside.

i cant figure out whats going on, ive taken the cover for the bumpstop off so that the pillow is only sitting on the little plate, and i still dont know whats going on. HELP!</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

its typical.

nothings wrong except some worn bushings and uneven weight distribution. my car on stock springs is lower at the drivers front side. you just dont notice it because the relative gap is big enough all around. a half inch shorter than 4" is less noticable than a half inch shorter than 2".

the best you could do is put an extra spacer at the top and/or bottom of the spring. or just dont worry about it.

 

were you sure to put the appropriate F/R springs where they should be? back when i was MUCH younger, i put my 350's on the Drivers side, and my 250's on the passenger side, not knowing there were two different spring rates in my kit. not saying that you are dumb like me -- but this could be your problem.

to figure this out, spring rates are often stamped on the springs. looks like yours are stamped in white. check it out and make sure your numbers are correct.
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an extra spacer? explain more haha.


so basically theres really nothing i can do until i get my full coilovers?

this isnt the first time ive done springs, but it is the first time ive run into this problem. and yea, i checked to make sure i had the right springs in the right place. on the Tein's, theres an F for front, and an R for rear. the two R's are in the back, and the two F's are in the front. i thought i did that when i first checked it out, but when i looked everything is where it should be.

 

it happens on a lot of cars. it happed on mine and on a couple of my friends cars. the driver side is always going to be a bit lower cause that side always has wieght on it when you drive. theirs really nothing you can do cause i remember my friend even tried adjusting the coilovers so that the driver side was a bit higher but it still saged a bit from that side.

 

This might help a little:

__ put the car up on stands
__ loosen the upper and lower control arm bolts in the rear, and the lower ones in the front.
__ on each corner use a jack and a piece of soft wood (like a pine 2x4) to raise the lower control arm until the corner just barely begins to raise off the jack stand a tiny bit, then re-torque all the bolts on that corner

This will put all the rubber bushings into a more natural state. It will also give you a chance to see which bushings are falling apart under load.

Another thing to consider: In addition to bushings going flat, its possible that one of the upper or lower arms in the rear have been somehow bent a little on one side in a way that might effect camber, and camber can make a wheel appear closer or farther away from the fender.

Take some measurements from the ground up to the jacking points on the bottom and see if they are closer to even than the fender gap is.

 

EF's and honda's generally have weak suspensions anyways. (This coming from a 1989 BMW M3 owner !)