I want to lower the ride height of my '79

[white99c2]

Can anyone point me to directions on how to do it? It sits really high.

[autobonrun]

Lots of posts on this subject.

Use the advanced search function and search in the title block for:

"Lowering"
"Spring plate"
"torsion bar"
"ride height"

One of these four will get you to a thread that has pictures and directions.

[the]

like said above, do a search, but to get that down to a good ride height is a lot of work. The torsion bars need to be reindexed. Easy on the fronts, the rears can be a real pain on a 30 year old car.

The rear spring plates need to come off, and the bars reindexed, the ride height needs to be carefully set, and an alignment, at a minimum.

You are almost certainly going to want to replace the rear bushings while you have it apart, and a corner balance makes it handle and brake better.

[the]

If you are not mechanically inclined (or at least fairly serious about learning), and if you don't have a decent place to work on it, and a decent set of tools, jack, jackstands, etc. this will be a difficult job, esp. if you run into problems with things sticking or being difficult to remove (which is fairly common with the rear).

If you hand it in to a shop, it will be expensive.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by the

like said above, do a search, but to get that down to a good ride height is a lot of work. The torsion bars need to be reindexed. Easy on the fronts, the rears can be a real pain on a 30 year old car.

The rear spring plates need to come off, and the bars reindexed, the ride height needs to be carefully set, and an alignment, at a minimum.

You are almost certainly going to want to replace the rear bushings while you have it apart, and a corner balance makes it handle and brake better.

Yes. Either that or get a really fat girlfriend.


Bill '79SC