Arghh Help :(

diablostang said:

Sooooo, I started my strut/spring/caster camber plate install today, and of course did something wrong.....

I'm guessing I didn't get the spring seated correctly? but anyhow, when I set the car down, it does NOT compress at all... The ride height is LIFTED over stock, when it should be 1.5 inches lower... One possible prob, there was a rubber thing on the TOP of the stock spring, I put it back on... Not sure if I was supposed to?

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Did this a while ago, added springs, struts & cc plates. Let's run thru a few things here, and see what we get

You should have one rubber isolator on the top of the spring, and one on the bottom coil. Helps reduce suspension noise and will lower the car slightly if you don't include them. Stacking two o nthe top would mean the ride height was higher, but I'm pretty sure the spring wouldn't be seated right on the top.

When you took out the spring, did you remove the control arm, or just push it down out of the way? If you removed it and put it back on, Hissin50 has a good point. You have to tighten the bolts tight when the suspension is under load, or the arm probably won't seat right.

When you put the spring in, did you make sure the spring settled in the right spot at both the top and bottom? If the spring isn't settled right, it'll be too high. In my case, I just pushed the control arm down; had to push the spring around a bit to make sure it lined up right.

Also, the bottom of the spring needs to be lined up in the right spot. If you remember, the bottom of the spring isn't flat - the coil just ends in a point. The control arm has a convenient groove in it for this point to fit into. The spring must be rotated so that point lines up in the bottom-most part of the control arm groove. If the spring isn't in that spot, your ride height will definitely be higher. This description may make better sense when you take a look at the spring.

You can see what the spring looks like compressed when you have the car jacked up - put the front on jackstands and pull the tires. Then put the floor jack under the control arm & jack it up. The spring should compress to ride height just before it lifts the car off the jackstand. This will give you a chance to look at the spring while it's compressed, and see if anything looks funny.

Try all this stuff out, and let us know what you find.

At worst, the springs you got could be wrong. I swapped springs on my 94 V6; the company I got 'em from insisted the springs were good for both V6 and GT. Well, he was wrong - the V6 was riding about as high as your GT is in the photos. I had to get a set of springs that were 2 inches shorter, and they fit perfect.

Your cc plate seems fine. Mine came with spacers to change the height of the strut - follow the instructions you should've gotten with the cc plates. However, that won't affect your ride height, it'll only affect how well the strut works and how long it lasts.