Rear Suspension Problems

[Guest Gpayne]

hi tom you say you have fitted front springs i had the same problem while i was building mine i had fitted the front springs instead of the rear springs which are slightly wider and catch the drive shafts got some rear springs from someone who was fitting coilovers and had no problem if you want something harder fit granada rear springs graham

[Guest tom2b]

i was under the impression that sierra rear springs are wider than the front springs?

[Guest Gpayne]

you might be right ! but changing to rear springs did the trick for me been on the road for a year now only bottomed out once but 60 over humped bridge will do that. i think the front spring distorts under load catching the drive shafts i had the same scrapes as you. graham

[Guest tom2b]

So graham was your problem just bottoming out or catching the driveshafts and bottoming out like mine? So i take it the granada rear springs fit in to the sierra spring cups with out any problems? If so ill get hold of a pair and give them a go. Im also buying some rear coilovers off of another member while they are available as my back up plan.

[Guest chris brown]

Im also buying some rear coilovers off of another member while they are available as my back up plan.

Dont I have a name then

[Guest tom2b]

Ok, im buying them off of "Sir Chris Brown"

Chris send me your adress so i can get the cheque to you!

[Guest Battery Bill]

Chris

Dont I have a name then

 

You have plenty of names but most of them would include *bleep* on this forum

[Guest chris brown]

*bleep* will do

[Guest tom2b]

BTTT

 

Im positive i have the wrong springs in the rear end which is causing this, what springs should i be using, frnts or rears and off of what car?

[Guest Battery Bill]

I seem to remember you should use the Fronts off the Sierra, But Im not that sure.

The ones on our 2b2 did not seem to be front or rears but they still hit the driveshafts

[Guest tom2b]

ah well if i cant cure it with springs i will use the coilovers that ive bought off of...........Chris Brown, yes he has a name and probably leave my adjustable dampers on there aswell if zeemers are as crap as everyone says they are! thats grims idea so i cant take credit for it.

[Guest Battery Bill]

Well it wont be any worse than with just the Zeemers

It couldnt be really

 

No actually For some people the rear Zimmers worked fine, I think Sir Chris used his for a long time before getting his wallet out

[Guest salty_monk]

I had RH supplied coilovers on my 2b sliding pillock, they were "pre zimmer" & had two springs on them to beef them up (they were a monroe unit).

 

Problem was that the double springing still wasn't hard enough & the damping couldn't cope... Then someone (Bob Tucker I think) suggested fitting a standard set as well... so I did. Result rock hard rear end, over damped (on compression mainly) & made the back end pretty twitchy, much less controllable on track would really "snap"

 

I'm not saying it won't work for you (especially as yours are adjustable), just be careful....

 

Dan

[Bob Tucker]

I see, its only my idea when it doesnt work HUH?

 

BTW my rear springs (ex. standard rear Sierra) also hit the driveshaft, but I managed to relocate the spring tops in a different position in the cups, and repositioned the bottoms in the arms, gave me about 1/2 inch clearance which has remained fixed over 14k miles

Bob

[Guest tom2b]

How did you manage to relocate them Bob? also did you suffer with bottoming out?