ammonman

No problem Ryan. I was tickled that Bilstein has the service and it is so reasonable.

Stan,
The perches are the same on both sides. I compared them carefully when I cleaned them for paint. The lube I mistakenly put on the LCA bushing may have allowed the suspension to over-compress on one or both sides. I did not think the suspension was totally settled as I only drove it about 15 miles today before checking the ride height, but the lube may have allowed it to over-compress. There may be some twist to the chassis as the same symptoms present with either set of springs. I will get it back in the air next weekend and clean the lube from the bushings and mounts along with setting the adjusters at the same height. Maybe with both sides set the same a good pot hole will tweak the high side back down and level out the stance My other thought was that maybe the sway bar is twisted/bent and pre-loading one side of the suspension. I plant to check that theory as well next weekend.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Mike

Mrmerlin

you can check the chassis easily,
put it on 4 jackstands on the jack points then start measuring from the floor to certain points on the bottom of the car you should be able to find uneveness if it is bent

ammonman

Well I got the car back up in the air this weekend and cleaned all the lube of the LCA rear bushings and mounts using a good high flash aromatic solvent (brain cells? who needs brain cells!). I also ran both adjusters back down until they bottomed out, then turned them both up ten turns as a starting point. After a short drive to settle the suspension somewhat I started checking height and found 20mm difference side to side. Since the left side was low by 20mm I added two turns to the adjuster on that side and continued the adjust/drive working to get up to at least the low limit of 150mm. Thank goodness for the short adjusting wrench from 928 Specialists as it allows turning the nuts without raising the car. I only have to turn the wheels all the way to the right to get the necessary clearance.

The other thing I tried yesterday after I was in the 150 range on the right was to raise the front wheels off the ground, loosen the LCA rear clamp bolts and set the car back down then re-torque the rear clamps. I was hoping that would "reset" the starting point for the suspension settling and give me some more height. I finally got to the point of having 155mm on the right and 145mm on the left after driving to work and back today (about 25 miles round trip.) I raised both sides another two turns and will re-check tomorrow after the commute. I checked both rears a couple of times yesterday during the raise/drive exercise and they were dead even at 158mm. If I can maintain the 10mm difference left to right in the front at only two turns difference on the adjuster nuts I am going to call it good as It will be within spec, if just barely. I know others have mentioned having to go right to the limit of the adjusters to get the height in spec on the low end when using the Bilstein/Eibach paring. Is that "in spec" using the additional 10mm downward tolerance per the WSM for old springs (minimum height =150mm) or "in spec" at 160mm? I forgot to count the total available revs on the adjuster before running out of threads when I had everything apart and am already at 20 rev on the right and 22 rev on the left. Where will I run out of threads? These cars are so sweet to drive I just wish they didn't take quite so many pounds of flesh to get put right again. Done whining now.

Mike