Front Spring is in!

[Tru-Craft]

Wanted to thank everyone for some real good posts! Made the job much easier.
I pulled the stock spring and lower a-arms off yesterday. I had rebuilt the suspension about 10 years ago so everything came apart pretty easy.
I jacked the car up and put 14" jack stands under the front jack tubes. The stock spring has a huge arc (12") and barely cleared! The new OGTS spring has 6-3/8 arc.
Cleaned everything, new ball joint boots, bolts & nylock nuts.
The spring eyes did need to be ground a little to clear the ball joints.
I put the spring eye poly bushings in with grease and assembled the A-arms to the spring, leaving the bolts loose!
Bolted the spring/a-arm assembly on one side, again leaving everything loose!
Jacked the other side up close, put the ball joint nut on a few turns, then the shock bolt in. I felt safer with the bolts in. With everything loose the last 2 bolts in the control arm pivot went in with a little prying and using a pin to line up the holes. Not too bad! Tightened everthing and let it down.
Looks good and handles great!
Bumper height is about 16".
Thanks again!
Lyle

[kent]

I just put in the 1' lower ogts spring and I have a couple questions

1. 1. my car is the same or possibly slightly higher then before is it possible the old spring was that worn?
2. 2. how stiff should it be? it seems really stiff no give at all?

i have not driven it yet but wonder if I could have done something wrong or should it be that hard? thanks

[petrieopel]

The OGTS sport spring is really stiff but your GT should sit a little lower.