>Rich writes:
>"I had always felt that the front end was too soft.
>Tapping the brake on the down side of a slow speed bump would bottom the
>front
>end. "
>
>This could also be caused by rear brakes not being adjusted enough. I had
>the same problem with my car with the "automatic" adjusting rear brakes.
>They didn't, which caused the front brakes to do more of the work, causing
>the dip you described.
Well, one thing I was always very picky about was the height of the brake pedal when brakes were applied. I used the parking brake (as I'm sure many do) to keep the rears adjusted to peak performance. I would set the e-brake by rolling slowly on a flat road Using the brakes a few times, to set them. Then roll again and click up on the e-brake handle until the rear shoes started to contact or drag. back of one click, and You have what I considered perfect brakes. I would do this a few times to make sure that they were dragging. This always provided a VERY firm pedal with no spongy-ness to the brakes.
So, no, it was the shocks and springs. I could also just sit on and off the fender in rhythm and bottom the front end too. It really was sprung quite soft. The shock weren't really bad, as the car would only bounce 1 to 1 1/2 times from sitting on the fender, But changing to the Adjustable-Ez really made a huge difference.
After adding those shocks, sitting on the fender would still drop that corner, but there was no rhythm to be found, I could not bottom the front end anymore. of course this did put more stain on the front crossmember. Unfortunately, the engine didn't last long enough to determine if this was a long term success. I only got about 6,000 miles on this setup before the Engine did its "Three Mile Island" melt down in the #3 cylinder.
Rich