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| Joined: | 03-13-2018 |
| Location: | 1974 Jensen Healey # 15681, New Brunswick Canada |
| Posts: | 45 |
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I am just putting the rear axle back in the JH after replacing all suspension bushings, shocks, spring seat rubbers etc. I have two sets of rear springs to work with from two 1974 low mileage cars (40k my rebuild car & 50K my parts car) and notice that the springs sets from each car are not the same length as each other with about 15 MM differential. both have a longer and a shorter spring. The driver car I am rebuilding had a longer spring on the drivers side than on the passenger side, I am not sure which side the springs came from on my parts car. I did not have any noticeable lean prior to starting this rebuild.
So I See several scenarios
1. replace the rebuild car original springs as I found them.
2. swap sides using the rebuild car original springs
3. make up a new set with one from each car and replace with a set of springs the same length.
3A longer or 3B. shorter.
PS I have read every thread on rear springs on this forum and not seen any mention of this issue. although there are several threads about "lean". :)