Rear Leaf Springs

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   Maybe I'm overthinking the springs,cutoff, not having a bottom coil that was wound at an angle to set in the perch to keep it perpendicular to the spring body.I know the bottom coil is a different angle to make this happen.Thought this could cause a problem with the spring popping out.uncljohn,i read your thread on the spring cut,just concerned about the perch angle.Again,thanks guys.

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amcgearhead Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Apprentice Joined: Jul/16/2011 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 89	Post Options Post Reply Quote amcgearhead Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Feb/05/2017 at 4:03pm
	Maybe I'm overthinking the springs,cutoff, not having a bottom coil that was wound at an angle to set in the perch to keep it perpendicular to the spring body.I know the bottom coil is a different angle to make this happen.Thought this could cause a problem with the spring popping out.uncljohn,i read your thread on the spring cut,just concerned about the perch angle.Again,thanks guys.
	1972 SST, 2001 MERC., 2008 CROSSBONES If it moves,it's going to break!!

uncljohn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Addicted Joined: Jan/03/2013 Location: Peoria AZ Status: Offline Points: 5394	Post Options Post Reply Quote uncljohn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Feb/05/2017 at 4:45pm
	I have close to 60,000 miles on my Spirit with them cut out as I do them with no problem and as it has been pointed out, it is an old school approach to lowering a car and it works. As to springs popping out? No reason to expect it unless abused or used in extreme performance conditions. In that case it is a different animal all together. After all, AMC's were used by the Arizona Highway patrol and there they did have a track record of springs coming out when running high speed pursuit over desert roads with "Whoop De Doos" in them. Personally my Mark Donohue with over 100,000 miles on it, has never tossed a spring, nor has my Spirit or Valerie's AMX nor has anyone else I know either. like I said, I stopped overthinking things a long time ago and my 76 Hornet will have some severely modified front suspension and I am not going to worry about it either.
	70 390 5spd Donohue 74 Hornet In restoration 76 Hornet, 5.7L Mercury Marine Power 80 Fuel Injected I6 Spirit 74 232 I-6, 4bbl, 270HL Isky Cam

Red20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Addicted Joined: Jan/29/2013 Location: Oceanside CA Status: Offline Points: 1556	Post Options Post Reply Quote Red20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Jun/30/2017 at 12:37pm
	Just an overdue update, my rear leaf springs are still worn out. It rides fine and my driveline geometry is near perfect. Cutting the coils netted me about 1-1/2" drop in front. I'd like a bit more but don't feel like pulling them out again. I had the rear up pretty high with the adjustable long shackles and the geometry wasn't good. It also didn't rail corners as well. Looked darn good though. I lowered it down to the top hole and it handles much better. I was able to get my transmission and pinion at exact opposing angles and about 1.5* u joint angle on each. Perfect for a ladderbar or linked suspension. I'd like a few more degrees down on the pinion for angle change under acceleration, but it's primarily a cruiser anyway. I'm gonna mitigate that by building a set of homemade cal tracs style traction bars eventually.
	1969 Javelin SST "Screamin' Banana" - Totaled Feb 2018 1973 Hornet Sportabout X "yellajack" - 360/727/TracLoc DAILY DRIVER