rdny74

Tried to lower front end of car with stock bolts. I read that you should turn bolt with 10mm wrench counter clock wise to lower the car's front end on stock suspension. But the bolt doesn't move. Am I doing something wrong? How do I lower the front end with the stock bolts? Please Help!

Ok tried to lower bolts in front but they won't budge. The threads are stripped. The washer on bushing looks welded to thread. Is that how its supposed to be? Should I cut the bolts and buy new ones? Please help

97C5ENVY

You'd be hard pressed to turn the front adjusting bolts if the spring pressure isn't relieved first. You can do this by placing a floor jack under the leaf spring as close as possible to the adjuster bolt you are trying to turn, and raise the spring up enough to turn the adjusting bolt. It now should turn fairly easily.

BTW you can't buy the adjusting bolts by themselves, you have to buy the entire front spring to get them (~$400)....so don't cut the bolts.

However you want to lower the car even further then what the ajusting bolts allow you can cut the rubber bushing at the end of the adjusting bolts. This will lower the front by about another ~1/2".

kvozel

Check out this and this..

vette747

In addition to all the good above information and soaking in WD40 for 3 days it was not moving. I use an heat gun (did not wanted to use welding torche on the composite leaf spring). I did not heated too much. Just until it was too hot to be touched by hand. It came loose with no problem.

RickC5

Mine were pretty tough, but, you just gotta use brute force.. thats the way cars and machinery in general like it.



brute force.

vettenuts

I would also use a six point wrench, not 12 point.