Full nut and bolt restoration of a series 2, 2+2 over many years is now almost complete.
- Front ride height was set as per the manual.
- Sagged to approx 3" lower than it should be.
- Reset ride height by rotating 1 entire spline on the rear which resulted in it being spot on (after rolling the car back and forth etc).
- over the course of the week or so that has followed it has sagged again, by a not insignificant 1.5" this time.
I'm wondering if what we are seeing is the 'set' the bar took on over their life unwinding as a result of them now being fitted on the wrong side, hence the repeated adjustment to the correct height and subsequent sagging again.
So the questions;
- Will we see them fail as a result of now seeing them stressed in the opposite direction?
- If they aren't about to fail, I assume this repeated sagging will shortly slow and then stop as they take on a new 'set' in the opposite direction?
- Is it too late to swap them around and hope the original 'set' is still there and hasn't been unwound? Although as i said at the start, I don't know that they are the wrong way around at the moment even though I suspect that they are.