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Old Aug 23, 2009 | 01:38 PM
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I was going to lower today but I have been looking at write ups and its looks like it has already been adjusted am I'm missing something.

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Old Aug 23, 2009 | 02:22 PM
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How much space is between the tires and fenders? Mine is lowered and only has about 1 1/2 inches between the tires and fenders. I'd say it has been lowered by how little threads are left on the bolts.

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Yes, It's been lowered. If, you want to go lower, get Two 1/2"x 7" -13Socket head bolts , uses an (allen wrench) 4 heavy duty flat washers, and two 1/2-13 elastic stop nuts. Put the bolt head down ward , flat waher, on each side of the bushing, nut on top. This will will give you about a 3/4" to 1" of thread left on the bolt. Good luck.
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cool thanks for the reply so that would help me with the back what would I do with the front. I was going to lower it today but to my surprise I found out it has already been lowered
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The front is alot harder to lower than the rear. Use the search funtion at the upper right side of this page and type in what you want to know. You will get all the information that you will need. Good luck.
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My car looks to me to be lowered on stock bolts and I have right at 3" of ground clearance. Are you looking to go lower or is yours not that low yet?
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Yea I have about 3'' of gap I thought that was with the bolts not adjusted so I was going to adjust them know I realize that it was done before I got the car.

When I measure from the ground to the wheel well I get 28 1/2" in the rear and 27 1/2" in the front. Can anyone check theirs and let me know what you get. I would like to hear from both lowered and not lowered.
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