Coil Spring Adjusters??

[[BlackDiamond]]

Hey all.

I was browsing through Lordco and found this COIL SPRING ADJUSTER KIT. On the box it said "Lift or Lower your vehicle by 1/5 - 2"

Has anybody ever tried one of these? Im considering lowering my car about 1 inch only and instead of spending the 150-200 on springs I thought this may be a good solution at $19.99

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Can anybody give me more information about this? Worth it or Junk?? Any side-effects / downsides of installing something like this on my springs?

Thanks

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[Skymarshal]

Those are the clamps that pinch two coils on the spring together, or spread them apart, right?
They're total crap. They're fine for some homeboy to put on his '81 Grand Marquis, but for a car you care about, stay away from them!

The coil springs are engineered to work as a complete unit. When you cut a coil off to lower the car, or use one of these clamps, you place stress on the spring that it wasn't meant to handle, and it won't work as designed. If you're lucky, only your handling will get messed up. Those clamps are famous for causing broken springs.

 

[[BlackDiamond]]

wow. thanks for the tip.

now as far as replacing the springs to some lower ones, if I'm planning on lowering 1.5 inches, do I need to worry about replacing the Struts as well?

 

[Skymarshal]

No, the shocks and struts will work fine with shorter springs. The factory struts are actually fine for street driving. Some people like to upgrade them too, but you wouldn't notice the difference unless you were on the race track.

If you lower the car 1.5", you might need to get caster/camber plates. They are installed on top of the strut towers, and increase the range of adjustment for your front suspension. Depending on the alignment shop, 1" drop seems to be the limit for them to get the steering back where it should be without c/c plates.