[73TA]

Like the title says, I ended up having to replace the air ride with coil springs because the car would never lower itself to the normal ride height after forgetting to turn off the suspension switch. The was car jacked up like a 4x4, never could figure it out. To bad, because the air ride worked great before that happened.

Anyway, I ended up getting a Strutmaster kit from a Mark VIII at a u-pull yard here locally. Front went on fine, ride height looks normal. Now for the rear, I cannot get the rear end to sit at normal ride height no matter what position I put the coils in (probably had them in and out 5 times), and I did look online for the correct way (even looked at Lou's video). I even called Strutmasters to get a pic of the correct orientation and their response was I need your invoice #, I said I don't have one. They said they could not help me. Needless to say I will never buy a Strutmasters part going forward.

So, unless I just a complete idiot (probably am), I have decided that the only way this will work is to cut some of the spring off on both rear coils unless someone here can give me direction on how to install these correctly. I have another kit, the same problem, sits to high in the rear, like a few inches to high.

Thanks in advance
Mike

 

[supergordo]

Have any pictures? I Assume you're working on a Mark 8. I doubt you need to cut anything. Can you describe how you did the job? Can you post pics of the ride height and the springs you installed?

 

[73TA]

Can't find away to edit my post to say it was a Mark VIII. This pic in this post is almost exactly what my car looks like.

Cutting rear coils on Mark VIII conversion kit

The rear of my Mark sits waaaay too high for my liking. It has a dumb raked look, which maybe belongs on a pickup or old muscle car, but not the Mark. The rear is really soft and floaty, almost bouncy. Feels like a bowl of jello back there. I bought the car with the coil spring kit already...

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[Grog6]

When I redid the rear arms on Lazarus, I used new poly spring 'cups' top and bottom, and it made the car too rear high for me. I went back to the old rubber ones. I think cutting the spring is certainly possible; in fact, some members have cut one turn off the front, and about 5/8turn on the rear is a nice stance.

 

[Bryan Young]

'98 Mark 8.
I have the Maxpeedingrods coilover conversion kit. The rear springs were definitely looking too tall and also extremely difficult to install with the aftermarket buckets for the rear spring installed.
I cut the rear spring 1.5 coils to get a decent ride height that just misses average speed bumps, but looks nice. The fronts ride height is easy to adjust and are designed like a traditional performance looking coilover, but without the performance as the valving is non adjustable.