Standard coil spring - different variants of or wrong springs?

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Originally Posted by Red90

All. They are bent. They should stand straight. Just get new springs. They are cheap. Figure out the proper rate and length that you want first.

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That's no fun! What would I do with all the hours of my life that I save getting the proper parts at the beginning rather than fitting all these dodgy old used ones in?

In all seriousness though, I'll probably just throw one of the Les Richmond Automotive White Tiger Spring Spacer Shims < White Tiger Spring Shim 6mm > under each of the low side and call it a day... The vehicle is only a cheap spare that does less than 5,000km a year and those shims should be very quick and easy to install as won't need to compress the front springs or anything.


Pulled the current fitted rear ones out and found on the upper half where the tighter progressive rate coil are a brown/burnt oranges and green paint markings:

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With the replacement yellow/yellow rear springs installed the rear has dropped 50mm and is sitting lower than the front now - still uneven too! Thank fully the rear springs are much quicker and easier to remove with the top shock absorber being an easy undo and no spring compressors required!

So either pure bad luck, or it must be something other than the springs causing the vehicle to be uneven side to side given that I've just swapped out all the springs and it remains almost equally as imbalanced with the same high and low side...

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Originally Posted by twr7cx

That's no fun! What would I do with all the hours of my life that I save getting the proper parts at the beginning rather than fitting all these dodgy old used ones in?

In all seriousness though, I'll probably just throw one of the Les Richmond Automotive White Tiger Spring Spacer Shims < White Tiger Spring Shim 6mm > under each of the low side and call it a day... The vehicle is only a cheap spare that does less than 5,000km a year.

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Coming over to the mainland anytime soon? I have a set of pedders standards here i swapped out for my purple yellows.
Cheers Jim

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Originally Posted by twr7cx

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So far I've fitted the the red/green to the front which has resulted in (hub to guard measurements):
Front drivers side - 445mm (25mm increase)
Front passenger side - 460mm (20mm increase)
So I'm 5mm closer now... Maybe it's the rears are having an effect on the front as the different left and right in the rear is more significant than the front difference now...?

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Sounds better. Do you have dual batteries? if only the single, could be a difference. But 5mm is probably within some spec or something.
But also, was that with someone sitting in the drivers seat?
Can make a slight difference.
Back in the day when I last went through all this, I used 2 25kg bags of some garden stuff my dad had for his garden . on the driver seat.
I weight 100kg, but no way to fit 4 of them, and in a 2door RRC, getting them into the back seat .. well not worth the effort.
So I did my measurments having something on the driver seat.
That was 99% of the way the RRC travelled.

What would be the chances of swapping front L<->R and hoping that the 5mm difference would be higher on the passengers side. that way when you're sitting, it may 'even out" .. or something to that effect.

ps. I've never compressed springs to remove/install(on my RRC or recently on my D1). I use the LR supplied jack between axle and chassis, and just enough force to get the clearance needed. So much quicker.