lowering a 40 coupe

[47Merc]

I was going to get the spring eyes reversed to lower the front of my 40 coupe but I see the second leaf wraps halfway around the main leaf eyes.

Is this standard and what do you do with it? The only thing I can see to do is to cut these wrap around ends off short of the main leaf reversed ends.
Am I on the right track? All thoughts welcome

[Brian]

You are on the right track....

[Bassman/NZ]

Just to clarify.... the eyes dont get reversed, the leaf gets re-arched so it bows in the opposite direction, thus giving the eyes on the top instead of underneath.

[southfork]

And there lots of places that will re-arch these old buggy springs? Or, do you have to send the main leaf to a specialty spring place somewhere?

[kelley's restoration]

you can do it yourself with a shop press real easy
i do it all the time to my springs
there is a tech artical on the hamb that shows you how to do it completely
tk

[Bassman/NZ]

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Originally Posted by southfork

And there lots of places that will re-arch these old buggy springs? Or, do you have to send the main leaf to a specialty spring place somewhere?

Any spring place can do it, or do it yourself as the above poster stated.

[34Phae]

you can also just remove the rap around leaf which I did o my 40. They aso can heat up the eye & reverse it then re temper it. Just had a reverse eye done last week for a 32. Was done by re aching, Was done by Atlas spring in City of Industry near LA.

[dwick01]

Bassman/NZ, I had no idea that is what de-arched really meant for reversed eyes on our springs. Thanks for the clarification.

[TJ]

De-arching and reversing the eyes by re-arching is two different things. De-arching means to decrease the arch of the spring. Re-arching means to increase the arch or to reverse the arch.

[dwick01]

Thank you TJ. Yes, I mis-read what Bassman was saying. Thanks for the clarification. Obviously, I am new to all of this.

[Sam A.]

34PHAE.....how much did the front of your 40 drop with removing the wrap around spring? How did it effect the ride?

[carbuilder]

I don't like reversing the eye because the spring is designed to have the support of the second leaf. dearching is safer. If you remove leafs I would put on a sway bar, if you don't already have one... or two

[joel]

Remove the 2nd leaf and add slider buttons between the leafs. I also took the 2 shortest leafs; shortened them and put them under the main leaf to maintain the height of the spring stack. This allows the U bolts to hold the spring properly with the stock clamps installed. This will drop the front about 2 in. and will improve the ride.

[34Phae]

Sam A I think it was about 1 1/2" with a great ride