Weird coilover problem...wont go down to original height?

[daytonaviolet]

is it high on both sides or just one side? if only one side, check how the spring is seated on the bottom perch.

[Vivek]

It's the same on both sides. The springs seem to be seated correctly on the top and bottom perches.

[jaywood]

Did you ever take the springs/adjusters out? Did you accidentally add spring pads?

[Vivek]

Nope. All I've done in the front is adjust the height on the threaded adjuster.

[hwy84]

1) You are misremembering how low the car was before.

2) Since you you don't think that's true:

With the car sitting, measure the distance between the center of the wheel, and the fender at a point. Mark that point with tape so you can measure with repeatability.

Now jack up the front side of the car, throw that corner on a jack stand, and remove the wheel you just measured. Now you can see the spring and adjuster.

Now position your jack beneath the steering knuckle of the control arm. Get it just right, it's bumpy down there and you could easily slide off.

Slowly jack the control arm up. The strut will compress until the spring contacts the strut hat and the adjuster. Now jack a little more. Does the spring compress at all? If you have reasonably stiff springs, it won't comress much at all, and you'll actually start raising the car off the jack stand. Don't keep going, or else you are liable to drop the car. At this point, measure from the center of the hub to the mark on your fender. (use a stright edge perpendicular to the hub face and measure from that at roughly the same distance away from the hub as the wheel face was when you measured from the center of the wheel.)

Watch the spring through the whole process above, and make sure nothing binds, and nothing looks weird. Mxke sure the distance matches. If it doesn't, your wheel is hitting something, or the coil is not seating with the wheel on.

Once you are convinced at everything is seated properly, and the spring makes contact with the hat and the adjuster perch, then realize that our universe is governed by physics, and your car could not have possibly been lower than what you see. Teenaged Memory Fail.

Enjoy.

[Vivek]

Haha...I think I may have figured it out. Not sure. What i think is that, I dropped the back before i lowered the front back down. This would make the whole body of the car pivot with the front wheels being the fulcrum. I've been measuring everything from the front lip, which I am 100% sure is higher because i could lean my phone on it before, and I can't now. I'm not just guessing.

So, would lowering the back a bit make the car pivot enough in the front to see a noticeable difference? I dropped the back about 2.5", and it seems like the front lip has raised up almost an inch. If not I'll try what hwy84 said soon.

[CHIF8008]

lowering the rear will cause the front to raise yes. just like when people overload cars.