[Shotimes] my strut saga

[Kevin & Cheryl Airth]

Mike:
 The ATX is slightly heavier but Ford makes no distinction in the springs,
just the wagon .VS. sedan. If you can get the spring codes I can decode them
for spring rates. Things can be installed to cause this but you also can do
a bit of adjustment with where the strut is clamped in the knuckle.
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> Well, I got it all put back together last night.  Cut the tab off the old
> strut to get it out.  Opened up the split in the bolt in the pinch so it
> would pinch.  Went back together pretty slick.  Had the wife on the
> prybar so I could get it back in.
>
> In the midst of all this, I replaced the original springs with some from
> a '93.  An ATX I believe it was.  The car now sits almost an inch higher
> in the front.  Does that make sense?  The car wasn't sagging before,
> so it's not that.  I'm hoping they'll find some glaring error on my part
> at the alignment shop, and it will at least go back to where it was before
> all this mess.  Is the MTX possibly that much lighter that it would do
> this?
>
>
> Mike Wojton