DangerousMouse
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Vienna, VA
Hey all, my friend and I installed Rusty's 2" front springs and Pro Comp 53111 rear springs this past weekend (still stock shocks...ya I know) and the lift looks great but the rear springs ride like absolute crap. It is obscenely stiff. I have an 85 Fiero GT with 300# springs and a full poly suspension and it rides better than my Jeep right now. A friend of a friend has this same setup on his Jeep and it rides only slightly stiffer than stock. I'm not sure if I just need to wait for the new springs to settle or if we somehow botched the install. The reasons that I am wondering this are the clunks that I hear coming from the rear when I go over a bump at slow speed (I don't know if they are there at high speed because my tires are pretty noisy) and the fact that if I push down on the rear of the car it doesn't compress at all, maybe a quarter of an inch at most...it's almost like pushing on a rock. When I go over a speed bump the front is like stock but the rear clunks and is ridiculously stiff. It's almost painful to drove down the highway. Also, (I don't know if this is related because I did the tires/wheels and lift all at once) whenever I come to a stop, as the car slows down I hear a sound like a tire rubbing on the fender flare a kind of wuub wuuub wuuuub (if that helps at all). The tires are not close to anything so I don't think anything is rubbing. Any help is appreciated!
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