..my question is is this correct?Quick question need help to do with steering
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caldridge7
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Quick question need help to do with steering
I have spax 40mm lowering springs all around iv been dealing with a steering issue and noticed my rear springs the 5 bottom coils all sit on each other on both side of the rear...my question is is this correct?
..my question is is this correct?Re: Quick question need help to do with steering
I have the same springs. Haven't noticed any issues such as you. Smaller/tighter coils should be at the top, and the larger coils at the bottom.
I was having vague/floaty steering issues and this has been vastly improved by swapping KYB top mounts for new Blueprint ones. The KYB ones felt too loose to me.
Haven't noticed any issues such as you. Smaller/tighter coils should be at the top, and the larger coils at the bottom.I was having vague/floaty steering issues and this has been vastly improved by swapping KYB top mounts for new Blueprint ones.
The KYB ones felt too loose to me.-
caldridge7
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Re: Quick question need help to do with steering
Anyway you can show me a pic of your rear coil springs as the car sits normally as so I can see and compare it to mine as we have the same springs
as the car sits normally as so I can see and compare it to mine as we have the same springsRe: Quick question need help to do with steering
Best I can do as the arch gap is so small!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8LEni ... p=drivesdk
Top coils look like they touch each other.
Yours are probably the other way up to mine. This is how I have done my fronts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8LEni ... p=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8LEni ... p=drivesdk
Top coils look like they touch each other.
Yours are probably the other way up to mine.
This is how I have done my fronts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8LEni ... p=drivesdkRe: Quick question need help to do with steering
Lots of debate on the interweb about which way up they should go or whether it makes any difference. I can't remember if they have the same flat bit on the top like stock springs. If so then it's easy to see which way up they should go and all 4 springs must be the same way.
Some say that the writing on the springs should be the right way up. With mine I think one side was one way up and the other side the other way up - not much help.
The thing that made the most difference/improvement to mine were the new Blueprint top mounts and decent alignment. My car is fully Polybushed and has new ball joints, track rod ends and inner track ends.
I can't remember if they have the same flat bit on the top like stock springs. If so then it's easy to see which way up they should go and all 4 springs must be the same way.Some say that the writing on the springs should be the right way up.
With mine I think one side was one way up and the other side the other way up - not much help.The thing that made the most difference/improvement to mine were the new Blueprint top mounts and decent alignment.
My car is fully Polybushed and has new ball joints, track rod ends and inner track ends.Re: Quick question need help to do with steering
Just to follow up here's a picture I took of a rear Spax spring today that's about to be fitted to a friends car: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8LEni ... p=drivesdk
As the flat bit goes at the top against the top mount(as per a stock spring) it confirms that the tighter coils should also be at the top even though the writing on the springs would actually be upside down.
As the flat bit goes at the top against the top mount
(as per a stock spring) it confirms that the tighter coils should also be at the top even though the writing on the springs would actually be upside down.