Removing front lowering bolts on C5?
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Removing front lowering bolts on C5?
I Know its been discussed before but can you remove the front lowering bolts altogether without adding any kind of pad. Ive got em out of my 2000 C5 and was gonna cut the bushings but thought maybe to just leave em out all together. Any drawbacks?
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You can take out the front bolts all together, but that leaves the fiberglass spring rubbing on metal. Not a good thing. Most put a small pad between the spring and the suspension. I just cut all of the bolt off except for about a 3/32 of the pad. I did not feel the little bit of difference was worth letting the spring rub. 
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Originally Posted by tiojames
You can take out the front bolts all together, but that leaves the fiberglass spring rubbing on metal. Not a good thing. Most put a small pad between the spring and the suspension. I just cut all of the bolt off except for about a 3/32 of the pad. I did not feel the little bit of difference was worth letting the spring rub.
