Lowering Your Ute

[Guest Rota_Motor]

so, how is the most popular way of getting the ass of your ute closer to the ground?

obviously front is easy, with shorter springs,

but whats the most popular way with the fords, lowering blocks, reset leaves, flipped leaves in the spring pack or what??

I noticed mine has 4 or 5 what I guess are spacers on the underside of the spring pack, I have been pondering repositioning them above the spring to bring it down a touch, pretty much like lowering blocks.

I dont really like lowering blocks, but at this stage, they seem to be the only way I will keep my one tonne rating, unless I get custom springs or whatever.

oh, and while on suspension, do people add extra leaves or anything to make the utes handle better, or justl imit mods to ride height adjustments.

[Guest philstoj]

Get your leaves reset, to what ever height you want, then go the same height for the front.

[XRPhantom]

I have new Pedders springs in the back with a better load rating. The ride is still exactly the same. It lowered the car about 20-25mm in the rear so the rear is now level with the front, I don't want to lower the front or rear anymore as I put bikes in the back and there are some pretty bad gutters where im from. The 20's definately filled the guards anyway.

Resetting springs seems a bit dodgy to me (Just like chopping springs at the front) but there are plenty of people who have don it and have no probs.

Hope this helps

[maximum_velocity]

http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/index.ph...topic=15759&hl=

take a look at that it looks really well done

[YOOT]

I have new Pedders springs in the back with a better load rating. The ride is still exactly the same. It lowered the car about 20-25mm in the rear so the rear is now level with the front, I don't want to lower the front or rear anymore as I put bikes in the back and there are some pretty bad gutters where im from. The 20's definately filled the guards anyway.

Resetting springs seems a bit dodgy to me (Just like chopping springs at the front) but there are plenty of people who have don it and have no probs.

Hope this helps 

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You contradict yourself, you worry about your load rating, but you have a 20" rim. What is the profile of that 20" tyre? I am willing to bet either

1. You profile is only a 30 series, in which case you car is illegal because currently there are no load rated 20" tyres available. So worrying about your springs is irrelevent.

2. Your profile is larger and your over all diametre is shot to pieces and you speedo is waaaaay out!

I lowered mine by putting in super low kings in the front and reseting the rear leafs. The rear dropped around 75mm and the front droped about 40mm.

[QTRMILE]

Yep, I got my rears reset, and front lowered with the superlow kings... MUCH better look and the ride is sweet too...

Just watch out for gutters and parking blocks!!!

Now I just have to work out how to post a pic...- can anyone help??

[wados]

Yep, I got my rears reset, and front lowered with the superlow kings... MUCH better look and the ride is sweet too...

Just watch out for gutters and parking blocks!!!

Now I just have to work out how to post a pic...- can anyone help??

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just wondering how much did this cost, if you dont mind saying

[Goobz]

I would also like to know the rough cost, and whats involved in "resetting" a spring?

I would only go low though(not super low), as the car scrapes on stuff as it is!!!

Chris

[XRPhantom]

I have new Pedders springs in the back with a better load rating. The ride is still exactly the same. It lowered the car about 20-25mm in the rear so the rear is now level with the front, I don't want to lower the front or rear anymore as I put bikes in the back and there are some pretty bad gutters where im from. The 20's definately filled the guards anyway.

Resetting springs seems a bit dodgy to me (Just like chopping springs at the front) but there are plenty of people who have don it and have no probs.

Hope this helps 

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You contradict yourself, you worry about your load rating, but you have a 20" rim. What is the profile of that 20" tyre? I am willing to bet either

1. You profile is only a 30 series, in which case you car is illegal because currently there are no load rated 20" tyres available. So worrying about your springs is irrelevent.

2. Your profile is larger and your over all diametre is shot to pieces and you speedo is waaaaay out!

I lowered mine by putting in super low kings in the front and reseting the rear leafs. The rear dropped around 75mm and the front droped about 40mm.

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Well that's funny that my wheels are covered in my insurance policy, but hey if you say so then they must be illegal. Speaking of being illegal im pretty sure your insurance company wouldn't be covering you with the arse dropped 75mm by resetting the springs :lol:

And about the load rating, nowhere did I say I was "Worried" about my load rating. Simply the new springs "Could" carry a higher load should I ever need to do so (Which is unlikely) The reason I got them because they were the lowest spring that Pedders had available. And yes my speedo is out by about 5km when doing 60, but this can be fixed when I take the car in for warranty work by them simply changing the rolling diametre in the ECU.

My post was simply answering Rota Motor's question of "How did you do it?". And that's how I did it.

[Guest Rota_Motor]

well, I asked a friend at a tyre shop about getting some new 18's for the ute, he said they couldnt legally fit them, as my car is a 1 tonner, and there are no tyres with the correct load rating.. which brings me to my point.

as my car is a tonner, if I lower it, with the same, or increased load rating, I still dont increase load capacity, as it is an engineered thing, BUT if I fit my 18's, the load rating is obviously going to be lower, but am I breaking the law having a lower load rating, or is it only if I load the tyres over their rating that it becomes an issue??

this is involved with this thread, as I want to lower it to make it look better with the 18's, but want to be able to whack the stock 16's with load rated tyres on if I need to load it up. I am now in a quandry :(