mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
Got a weird problem I have more or less put to bed on the wife's Miata....it's a used '91 I picked up for her last Feb....silly car is clean in and out except for the left front fender, but that's just cosmetic....all the seams and welds and panels are straight and NOT RUSTED, NO evidence of the car being in any severe accident....here is the weird part....
the thing has good ride height in front...side to side...fine...shocks good, suspension/steering tight....the rear is a IRS with struts, and upper/lower A arms....diffy couples to the tranny with that C channel like a C4 uses....
very straightforward design, simple as can BE.....except one thing....
the PASS/right rear side rides about 1.5 inches higher than the driver's side...
I fucked with it last spring, and even switched struts, and nothing, still high in the right.....looks like the car taking a piss or something, really stupid....keep in mind, the front rides equal height.....tells me the body is racked somehow...but I find NO DAMAGE signs anywhere....so??
doors and panels line up ok, convertible top on driver's window don't fit for shit, but I call that a canvas problem not a DOOR problem
I even tried another set of struts, and still nothing....so I have cut almost TWO COILS out of the pass side strut to get the thing to ride even...which is does NOW....
anyone any clues???
:crap::bonkers:
the thing has good ride height in front...side to side...fine...shocks good, suspension/steering tight....the rear is a IRS with struts, and upper/lower A arms....diffy couples to the tranny with that C channel like a C4 uses....
very straightforward design, simple as can BE.....except one thing....
the PASS/right rear side rides about 1.5 inches higher than the driver's side...
I fucked with it last spring, and even switched struts, and nothing, still high in the right.....looks like the car taking a piss or something, really stupid....keep in mind, the front rides equal height.....tells me the body is racked somehow...but I find NO DAMAGE signs anywhere....so??
doors and panels line up ok, convertible top on driver's window don't fit for shit, but I call that a canvas problem not a DOOR problem
I even tried another set of struts, and still nothing....so I have cut almost TWO COILS out of the pass side strut to get the thing to ride even...which is does NOW....
anyone any clues???
:crap::bonkers: