Raising the read suspension

dazedduster said

if your going to go thru the trouble of adding a overload spring, and it sound like you have reently had the springs out, and you figure the cost of the overloads and/or the new shocks, why not just do it right and put in new springs, its not that much more work

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I agree 100%. I just put new springs under my 68 Barracuda and it took about an 1 1/2 hours to do. I used XHD 5 leaf springs that replaced the stock heavy duty 6 leaf springs. The car had longer shackles installed by the PO and the new springs with stock shackles raised the car about 1 to 1 1/2" higher than level.

It stopped the bottoming and actually rides better now with a spring that has the proper arch. Plus I have less spring wrap so the car launches with less wheel hop.