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Old 02-04-2004 | 08:28 AM
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Did some adjustments with the car tonight after I notice the ride height from the suspensions are off. So I took off the rear sway bars before I proceeded. This is how I measure my ride height(actually to make sure both arms are the same height) for both front and rear since I dont have a tool for that now. What I do is take my Hudy wrench and stick it in the screw to see how far it goes in. Then I take a color tape and mark it on the stick to see how deep it goes in. I do that to the other side as well. Then I do the same for the front and rear. I can just tell by eye balling it very close. I lift the car up first at the front and both wheels are the exact same height from the groung, I did the same for the rear and its perfect This is what I do to check the preload of the springs. For all 4 shocks I put the car on all four wheels and turn the aluminum collar so that the springs have barely any play, not much but enough to twist the springs around easily. That way I know that they have pretty much the same preload so incase there is adjustments that needed, its not that far off. So when I do the lifting( to see which wheel lifts up first)technique its much easier to adjust from there.
So right now the car ride height is all good, and ready to go. Then I lift the front to see which wheel lifts first, did some spring adjustments as well and everything seems to work fine. The rear had no problems as well, very quick adjustment (about half a turn) and all good.
Now here is the problem, I then installed my rear sway bars and checked the links and rods that connect to the sway bars to make sure both are the same lenght and distance. When the sway bar is connected the car is tweaked. The height for the rear arms are not the same! Put the car down and lifted the front to see which wheel lifts up first and what do you know, its tweaked! I didnt bother checking the rear to see which wheels lifts first since the arms were not even. So without the rear sway bar the car is perfect but when its connected its tweaked.

Does anyone have any idea as to what I am doing wrong or what else I might have missed out?
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