I am getting really SERIOUS on this lean

OK, here is what I did, and the results...

I cut about a 1-3/4" long piece of my high front spring off, which I estimated as being 1/4-3/8" of the height of the spring (wanted to go easy on it and do small increments).

It dropped that front high side down 1/4" (duh...go figure...).

But, did not affect the rear at all, and did not affect the height of the low front side.

I think I will have to cut another 3" long chunk off my spring (3/8-1/2" height) to get the front almost level, then do some shimming on the rear to level it out. These small amounts of change are not affecting the other ride heights.

Just FYI...

 

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I also loosened up the shackle bolts and disconnected the rear shocks. Then tightened them back up with the weight on them. I could see one of the rubber bushings shifting with the weight off, when I tightened it all back up, it dropped both sides by 1/4" so my overall lean is still 3/4" high on the right side.

Again, just FYI...

 

Screw it. Ladder bars and coil overs.

 

I agree with Shadow...ladder bars and coil overs...so, who's buying???

oops, wrong smilie

 

It's ok Scoop, my car dosen't sit level either. My gut feeling is the frame might be twisted... just a little...

 

HA....HA...I get the joke

I feel almost as bad as you do when I see pics of that car

I have been there with a car or two, and don't wish it on my worst enemy...well, maybe on my WORST enemy :evilsmile

 

:evilsmile

As for the car, yea, it was like loseing an old friend. Best I can do is get it straightened out so that it's driveable again. Some people have said it'll never be the same again, but I don't really care as long as it's driveable. I think alot of that is just in people's head. Very few of us here could prove that our cars haven't been wrecked like that in the past. Just like I never knew that '74 had been hit in the rear by a logging truck until a previous owner told me.

 

I hit a Pinto in the @ss end with a VW Bug when I was 18 (and NO, it didn't explode! and I hit it hard!!!) and I straightened the front end with a couple of trees and a 10-ton hydraulic ram. It never looked right, but when I took it in to get it alligned, the guy said it was almost straight!

So, if you have the patience and the tools, you CAN make it right again...

 

Scooper, that makes you a CERTIFIED shade tree mechanic!

 

Yup!!!

 

i straightened a beetle out with a tree and chain, lots of fun. still laugh that i watched a video on that exact accident (front tank vw rearending rear tank pinto) and how much of a bomb that was supposed to create

 

I hit that Pinto really hard at about 30mph...totalled both cars. His had an angle bent into the center of his frame, so the floor was about 8" higher than it was supposed to be in the center, and both bumpers pointed downward. Mine hit only right front fender (left rear brake locked up) folding my fender into the "trunk" of the Beetle.

I never even thought about the explosion, until later, when I told someone about the accident, they started to laugh and said the same thing you said...about seeing it in some "educational" video or something.

Was that a drivers ed video, or a demonstration of exploding cars? I have never seen it, just been told by others about it, so it must be a pretty famous video.

 

A wreck between a VW Beetle and a Pinto... That's something you just don't see anymore these days.

Man, I'm on a roll here.

 

Even when I had the wreck, it was something you didn't see very often (again, I never really thought about it until you brought it up) but the accident happened in 1992 and both of those cars were very old at that time. My VW was a 71, and that Pinto was probably 74-ish.

 

My uncle wrecked his '70 Boss 302 in 1992. Was going through an intersection, a mid 80's Mustang ran a light and nailed the Boss in the drivers side rear quarter, the Boss spun around and the passenger rear quarter nailed a damn Mustang II Cobra that was sitting at the other red light. Three Mustangs took out in one wreck. '92 Must have been the year for strange wrecks. The Boss sits half fixed to this day.