{"id":756,"date":"2016-04-21T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2016-04-21T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:00:57","slug":"coil-spring-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/coil-spring-modification\/","title":{"rendered":"Coil Spring Modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are ways to lower the ride height of your car that aren&#8217;t that bad. This was not one of those ways.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-764\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016_04_21_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_04_21_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Changing the length of your springs is the main way to change your ride height, but usually people either buy shorter springs, or they cut out part of the spring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-765\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016_04_21_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_04_21_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not what this owner did. They had their springs heated up and bent, which is really not a good thing to do. You can see that some parts are even touching each other. I would not be surprised if this didn&#8217;t ride very well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-767\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016_04_21_03.jpg\" alt=\"2016_04_21_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a common side effect of ride height modification is irregular tire wear, often making you wear through a set of tires much quicker than usual. Unless you know what you&#8217;re doing, lowering or raising your vehicle isn&#8217;t going to be that practical in the long run.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are ways to lower the ride height of your car that aren&#8217;t that bad. This was not one of those ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,31,58,68,70],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-diy","tag-suspension","tag-wheels-tires","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}