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Welcome to FordPinto.com, The home of the PCCA => General Help- Ask the Experts... => Topic started by: PonyRider62 on February 14, 2019, 01:34:15 PM
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Anyone Know The Part Number For Leaf Springs And Front Coil Springs For A 73 Wagon?
Idiot Who Had This Car Lowered It. I Need To Get It Off The Ground!
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I'm building a 72 sedan into a go fast car.
Called Standens Axle in Calgary & asked if they could make a new set of springs for me.
Yes, they can.
So any good spring place near you should be able to do the same......
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If your on the left coast get a hold of https://bettsspring.com/ they can make them stock or custom. Front springs get the Moog catalogue it's just diameter and spring rate. Cut to fit
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Were the rear leaf springs re-arced? Typically people just use lowering blocks that can be removed and the stock height restored. BTW, the wagons have a longer leaf spring than the sedans. They also take a slightly longer shock that is rather hard to find and can be expensive.
Suspension wise a 1973 wagon (yea, I have one too) is probably the worse Pinto to have. The wagons have the longer springs and rear shocks, - and all the '73 Pintos have the one year only steering rack, one year only front spindle (just found that out recently) and the difficult to find and expensive '71-'73 rotors. So much for being a "common, economy" car!
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Denver no longer has a spring shop for environmental reasons. We don't have a chrome shop anymore for the same reason.
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Were the rear leaf springs re-arced? Typically people just use lowering blocks that can be removed and the stock height restored. BTW, the wagons have a longer leaf spring than the sedans. They also take a slightly longer shock that is rather hard to find and can be expensive.
Suspension wise a 1973 wagon (yea, I have one too) is probably the worse Pinto to have. The wagons have the longer springs and rear shocks, - and all the '73 Pintos have the one year only steering rack, one year only front spindle (just found that out recently) and the difficult to find and expensive '71-'73 rotors. So much for being a "common, economy" car!
My "how to build a Pro Stock" says the 73 spindles were stronger than the 71 / 72s.
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Thanks For The Feed Back!
I'll Keep Looking!
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Were the rear leaf springs re-arced? Typically people just use lowering blocks that can be removed and the stock height restored. BTW, the wagons have a longer leaf spring than the sedans. They also take a slightly longer shock that is rather hard to find and can be expensive.
Lowering blocks can worsen spring wind up under acceleration. I wasn't about to restore the car to stock
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Not Sure, But I Think He Torched Both Coil And Leaf Springs!
She Rides Like A Tank!