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P Painting101
I have a swing axle suspension on the rear of my speedster. I think it's a 1969 chassis, but it's possible that this set-up was installed by the previous owner, so I don't know if it's original to this chassis.

After putting about 300 miles on my car this weekend, I noticed that the right rear is sitting on the bump-stop, while the left rear has about 1.5 inches of suspension travel. So my car is leaning to the right.

I read the Haynes manual, and it appears that the suspension is adjustable. I really don't know if this problem was there from the beginning, and I just never noticed it, or if something broke.

Assuming that nothing is broken, and it's just out of adjustment, I was just curious if anyone has done this procedure.

It looks pretty straight-forward, but somewhat time consuming. Is this a fair assumption? Does anyone have any suggestions for completing this procedure?

I was just going to cheat and buy some air shocks so I could adjust the ride-height with the air pressure, but that's too much of a cheater move for me.

Thanks,
Adam
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P Painting101
I have a swing axle suspension on the rear of my speedster. I think it's a 1969 chassis, but it's possible that this set-up was installed by the previous owner, so I don't know if it's original to this chassis.

After putting about 300 miles on my car this weekend, I noticed that the right rear is sitting on the bump-stop, while the left rear has about 1.5 inches of suspension travel. So my car is leaning to the right.

I read the Haynes manual, and it appears that the suspension is adjustable. I really don't know if this problem was there from the beginning, and I just never noticed it, or if something broke.

Assuming that nothing is broken, and it's just out of adjustment, I was just curious if anyone has done this procedure.

It looks pretty straight-forward, but somewhat time consuming. Is this a fair assumption? Does anyone have any suggestions for completing this procedure?

I was just going to cheat and buy some air shocks so I could adjust the ride-height with the air pressure, but that's too much of a cheater move for me.

Thanks,
Adam
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