Just read through this thread and was going to suggest those as we use them on the subaru rally cars often.
don’t want to use just washers over the studs as that will concentrate the weight of the car on very small points which will eventually fail. need to distribute the load over the entire surface like those spacers do.
Mike’s got you covered, I’d just get ahold of him and have them whipped up in a jiffy.
^ do this. Like previously stated the whole washer idea is a very bad idea.
sounds like the best possible solution to me.
New tires.
Tried new tires. The added 1/2" to diameter to get the 1/4" height causes bad rubbing in places i can’t bfh. Or adjust to not rub
Damn dude, that would have been a perfect solution too. Good luck.
new apartment
Its not even so much the driveway as it is that extra 1/4"height really will add to the driveability
Do different years of them have different style tophats? I know miatas do. You could gain some height there if there are different ones. Someone could definitely make you some but they’d be waaaay expensive. What you posted for the suby would probably work if you could find someone to make them.
WTF?
stancers will stance :rofl
hahahahah
thats one better than me putting 2x4 chunks between the coils on my old ass subaru legacy to make a lift kit! hahahahaha They worked great until you get air born and they droop and fall out! lol
oh wow
Found my answer.
These around the bottom of the spring seat. .562 inch height fairly universal, rubber. Designed mainly for cars with sagging springs they go int between th coils and installed that way are supposed to lift the front end an 1" because the creation more spring tension on the sagging springs. Installed at the spring seat they should only lift the car the .562 inch height. Perfect for me
the thing I would worry about is this…
The cup molded into the bottom of the strut body, that cradles the spring, that that rubber johnson would sit in, would now put the bottom most coil on the spring ABOVE or damn close to above the top of the molded cup on the strut body. Long sentence but I think you know what I am trying to say.
So, if there is any bind in the upper mount and steering the car wants to twist the spring, its just asking to kick the coil spring out of that rubber thing, since there isnt a steel lip to retain the spring on the strut body.
Unless you tackwelded a few tabs on the side to prevent that after you installed that rubber guy.
I don’t understand that… Do you mean putting one above and one below the spring? How does that create spring tension? Or do you mean inbetween binding coils maybe lol idk. Jw how that’s supposed to work
Anyway I’d just use a flanged spring seat grommet. Pref hard rubber or urethane. order/trim it to fit and slice it to match the spring seat. I guess the spring could still spin and push it out like mike said unless your suspension is like mine and only droops like .5" Lol
pair of these in the springs:
Ron, I wouldnt fuck with the spring, just working with spring compressors is bad enough. Just get something to space the top of the strut mount from the strut tower.
