Do drop springs settle down after a while or number of miles?

[erikgto]

Hi guys,

We installed 2 1/2" western drop spindles with 1" bell tech drop springs on my '86 c10 today.
Unfortunately it sits higher than it sat before with severely torched original springs!

The ride is a million times better, but I'd like the nose to be a bit lower than where it's at right now.

I was afraid to cut half a ring off the drop springs in fear of lowering it too much. My truck has headers which hand quite a bit below the frame and I don't want to be riding on my headers every time I hit a speedbump (and we have a gazillion of those here in The Netherlands!) Some of those are just HUGE!
Sold a '79 Firebird recently running stock springs and a stock exhaust system and the guy couldn't even get over a speedbump in his street without scraping his exhaust badly!!!

Bottom line; will my 1" Bell Tech drop springs settle down a bit after driving it a while or is this it?!?!?

erik