Spring height

Anthony Robinson (anthonyr(at)aqua.civag.unimelb.EDU.AU)
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:12:23 +1100


Jay wrote:

>As some will remember, I had a concern about my front end sitting too
>high. On reading the Workshop Manual I recently got from Sunbeam
>Specialties, I noticed in the section on front ends, they describe a gap
>guage that they use to measure between the top of the lower a-arm (right
>behind the rubber bump stop) and the bottom edges of the metal bump stop
>above. For the Alpine, they list the gap to be 2". Well, after changing
>over to stock rubber insulators, that gap is 2.4/2.5" (I made a
>few different width guages out of cardboard).

Did you measure these gaps with the car loaded as suggested in the workshop manual?