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Just measured so called ride height... Posted by bill h. (more from bill h.) on Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:09:10

In Reply to: Re: Dean, the struts are junk on this car too? Really?, Snowmobile

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JJJ site says for Aero 24.4" front, mine is 23.125 and 23.375"
24.0 rear, mine is 23" and 22.875"

So I have read through the archives, some say replace busings, replace springs, by Koni shocks and set one the top setting, set on the bottom setting, add shims, install spacers, get alignment, do before alignment, use Aero wagon springs...and any combination thereof. No real consensus. No one really addresses front end drive height. If you jack up the back, you shift weight bias and wear and wear toward the front. So merely doing the back may not accomplish much. My tires are wearing normally and not more at the inner or outer edge.

The car just rides very harsh and always has, except when I put the 205.50.15s on from my 00 9-3 as an experiment one weekend. And it really does not go around corners that great either. Then the 9-3 rode worse with the 17 inch Aero wheels. Go figure. Viggens must have been harsh as well.

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Posts in this Thread:

04 aero approaching 95 k, what maintenance is needed, bill h., Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:33:58
- struts! n/m, Dean, Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:48:19
  - Dean, the struts are junk on this car too? Really?, bill h., Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:31:08
    - Re: Dean, the struts are junk on this car too? Really?, Snowmobile , Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:32:55
      - Just measured so called ride height..., bill h., Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:09:10 <-- Viewing This Message
        you do need to do suspension work with those numbers, Snowmobile , Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:46:18
- Re: 04 aero approaching 95 k, what maintenance is needed, Name Left Blank, Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:31:17
- Re: 04 aero approaching 95 k, what maintenance is needed, Dan , Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:06:30
  - Re: 04 aero approaching 95 k, what maintenance is needed, bill h., Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:11:18
    - Pulleys, tensioner, fuel pump, water pump, Stephen Goldberger, Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:56:24
    - Wow we are on such similar journeys..., Mark from Toronto, Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:41:56
      - Bad sub-frame bushings??..., MI-Roger , Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:35:40
        Yeah, the ride is punishing on this thing, bill h., Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:40:47
        You had a '79 TransAm too??, MI-Roger , Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:20:08
        Same motor, 4 speed, ordered without, bill h., Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:49:53
        Same color too!, MI-Roger , Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:45:13
        Funny story, bill h., Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:23:14

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