Spring help

[jng2985]

Originally Posted by donutninja So maybe I don't follow but why would the spring being upside down cause it to be fully compressed like that?

That's how it should be just flipped over. Coils start narrow and spread out, when installed correctly you can't see how compressed the spring is unless its jacked up. It was a mind fuck of a thing. Had no clue wtf happened and thinking worse case I picked up another set of K springs. Looking at the rear spring this morning it occurred to me that it's prob upside down.
The kicker is, either way the load on the spring is the same no matter how it is installed? What I found, no more noise/ride was improved.

[donutninja]

Originally Posted by jng2985 That's how it should be just flipped over. Coils start narrow and spread out, when installed correctly you can't see how compressed the spring is unless its jacked up. It was a mind fuck of a thing. Had no clue wtf happened and thinking worse case I picked up another set of K springs. Looking at the rear spring this morning it occurred to me that it's prob upside down. The kicker is, either way the load on the spring is the same no matter how it is installed? What I found, no more noise/ride was improved.

yeah, crazy it can make such a big difference. At least you got it figured out!

[zsommer79]

Originally Posted by jng2985 The kicker is, either way the load on the spring is the same no matter how it is installed? What I found, no more noise/ride was improved.

The load isn't the same because the angles the spring compress at are going to be affected. If you could have seen it compressed it probably had a bulge/arch in it. Have you checked the front to make sure the shop installed them correctly? If the strut mount isn't positioned correctly it will throw your angles off.