lowering
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The best way to lower leaf spring is to re-curve them. This can be done with a large hard block of wood about 16" high, (like a stump) and a sledge hammer. Take the spring apart and re-curve each leaf to the height you need. Turn the arch up and hit with the hammer in the middle. Work the whole length of the spring by moving it on the block till you get the curve you want. Just match all the leafs to the same curve and bolt them back together.
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From: Priest Riv, ID.
If you use proper technique, it's really not very hard. The key is to use a hard flat block of wood about 12" to 16" around and a long handle sledge, put the spring on with the curve down and hit the spring in the middle. You don't really have to hit it what hard to recurve a spring. Just move, hit and move, hit. I did this when I used to race a 65 Mustang in a street stock class that you could not use lowering blocks. Start with the main leaf and measure the drop in height from the spring eyes to the center of the spring perch. Match all leafs to the main leaf. Say your main spring has a 5" static curve, if you recurve it to 4" it will lower the car about 1" then you put it all back together.
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