A pictoral comparision

I tend to agree with you Captain Comet, but I cut the coils back in the spring and still had the drums on it. It lowered it to be sure, but not as low as it is now after I changed to the disc. bmcdaniel mentioned wheels with a different backspace, but I have not changed wheels, you can tell by the pics. I don't think the disc have a greater offset to the outside, but they may have. If they do, what bmcdaniel posted would be the reason, more leverage on the suspension. All I know is the tires didn't even come close to rubbing with the drums and now they do with the disc. I like the look anyway, and the tires are just rollers, so when I do get new ones I have a good idea what sizes I need.

 

Did you drive the car after you cut the springs? did you move the car at all since the springs have been cut? I am guessing that the springs just finally settled or something after you "disturbed" them by putting on the disc brake spindles.

 

I agree with the above post.
Also you can tell the rear wheels have rubbed by that "nice" white ring around your tire. Looks like you'll be buying a new one soon.

 

This car didn't have an engine in it when he bought it. I think the springs are just settling. Also, if you jack the car up and let it back down, you'll notice it sits higher until you roll the car.

 

Car has not been driven yet. It has been jacked up several times and placed on jackstands with the wheels hanging, both after the spring cut, and let down both soft and fast and hard, and I have even bounced on the bumper before the spindle swap. Just this last time when I let it down, after swapping the spindles, it went down further

Like I said above, those are just rollers, they are the same tires that were on the car when I bought it. That one was already damaged. They are weather cracked anyway, so I will be replacing them all before I drive it very much. No use in putting good rubber on it until it's road worthy, when I work out all the new car bugs, then it is getting some new BFG's.

I don't know how long it sat without a engine in it before I got it, so the springs were probably extended full height. I have bounced it around a bit today and it seems like it might be the front end parts are tight from sitting so long. I'm happy with it though, I'll just have to do like Earl said and run a shorter tire.

 

Any way you cut it, I like the stance on the front better now than it was before. I think you are on the right track letting the back end down. I would go for a front tire that is a bit shorter too. That diameter of tire looks good on the back, but a couple inches shorter in the front and I think the stance will be really good.

 

It sat quite a while with no engine... I'll bet a year or more. Mine had been sitting with no engine for quite a while too, when I put the engine in it, the front settled down quite a bit the first few months I was driving it.

I agree... with the right tires I think it will look real good!

 

Yeah, I didn't like the way the mickey mouse shackles had the springs flattened out, when I drove the bolts out, the spring jumped up a foot or more! And those bolts, very soft, weren't even grade 5, must have been chinese steel. I ruined both of them driving them out. I dug out a pair of 215/70/15's that my pa in law took off of his Caddy, they look like they will do the trick, about 50% tread left, blackwalls though. I've also got a couple more 225/70/15's that I have saved for the rear for now, going to try to get some new BFG's next spring or summer, probably 245/60's for the rear...

 

My rear springs did the same thing when I unbolted them.
I hate shackles!