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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 01:12 PM
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one thing are missing here. The stock control arms pull your axle back and tilt the pinion angle up which tilts the mounting brackets. That now puts a bend in the coil spring which causes it to sag prematurely. I know this from personal experience and my springs when I took them out to replace them were in a permeant bend. I have seen this happen on 3 coil springs. You want the spring to be as strait as possible.
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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 01:22 PM
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Stock arms on 31s.. BOOMA!
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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by 96_xj
one thing are missing here. The stock control arms pull your axle back and tilt the pinion angle up which tilts the mounting brackets. That now puts a bend in the coil spring which causes it to sag prematurely. I know this from personal experience and my springs when I took them out to replace them were in a permeant bend. I have seen this happen on 3 coil springs. You want the spring to be as strait as possible.
Isnt that why you align it by putting shims behind the LCA's mounting bracket? Then it pushes the LCA out and adjusts caster.
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 02:08 AM
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Not THAT much adjustment in the OE shim-plates.
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 08:23 AM
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Theres plenty of adjustment there, you just need to make shims for it
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