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Location: Washingtonville ny
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out of curiosity...
Been reading lots of threads lately and I always pass by some about cut rear coil springs and have me thinking. Iknow I can cut the fronts and be comfortable but the rear? How many can be cut off the front til the control arm is on a cut bump stop? Who's running cut rear stock coil spring out there and what did you cut off?
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Re: out of curiosity...
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I don't think you can successfully cut the rears unless you have a spring shop in your area that can re-taper the coils. The top and bottom of the coils are smaller so that the bracket that bolts the spring to the trailing arms and frame will fit it..... I think cutting one full coil off will drop the front 2". This is variable depending on how weak your springs are. LockDoc
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Re: out of curiosity...
more than likely all you could really do to rig the rear spring is heat it
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Re: out of curiosity...
I've cut springs before, and it never turns out well, for the minimal cost of a set of drop springs I don't understand why people don't just replace them. To each thier own I suppose. I've drop C10's with cut springs and with replacement drop springs and the ride is way worse with the cut spring aplication.
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