1Marauder
06-17-2019, 02:51 PM
Ok Gang,
I will write up more later but wanted to get this out there!
Disclaimer, I am good with tools, and projects, and cars. Not a mechanic, not an engineer, but I take advice really well, and I have others do the hardest work mostly because I am now partially handicapped--and crunched for time.
Two of my four panthers have "the lean" and two don't. The two that lean ALSO SIT 1.5 to 2 inches taller in front and EACH ONLY HAS 30.000 miles. Drives me fricken Batty!
Wild thing is... Of the two that sit high in front AND lean, one is a Marauder, and the other is a CVSPORT.
I found NOS (rare) Heavy duty front springs with same stock tag codes as Marauder.... Installed them with new Heavy Duty Shocks...AND THE DAMN CAR STILL SAT 2 INChES TOO HIGH. So I uninstalled them and had 1 coil could cut... And it sits almost exactly like the two stock panthers do.
So I then installed new rear KYB struts, and A-2220 Hevy duty airbags (Limo etc).
The new KYB shocks were installed a while back with new rear sway bar, so I just installed the new heavy duty airbags and they are BADASS. Could feel the difference in the driveway. The comparison is as striking and when you first installed New Metco Watts link and control arms....That much of an immediate noticeable difference.
COOLEST THING EVER? The mechanic has a Snap On Ethos Unit, plugged it into my port... And found an air ride control software in the unit.
First he "remembered" the Air ride height before changing the rear bags, and after he changed the bags, he simply pressed the control screen button, could cycle the air ride pump... And it went back to where I had it set previously. He then lifted car, moved the manual settings back to the middle of thier travel range, and tightened the two nuts..
Once on the ground he cycled the air compressor to inflate/deflate the bags three times... to see if we could "level the rear" and...
Get this. Asked me where I wanted the new rear height "set."
By pushing a button on the screen, UP or DOWN, we set the rear setting EXACTLY WHERE I wanted it. All while standing outside the car, on the ground, looking at it.
Having manually done this four times to get it right (in the past) .. Each time raising and lowering the lift etc... This SnapOn control unit method was SIMPLY TOO COOL!
Bad news is... Car still leans a little. It is not the bags, not the shocks, and not the springs. 1 owner car, never wrecked, still near showroom. Mechanic checked everything he could think of.
Car sits 2 inches above rubber both front and back. Looks amazing.
PS photo attached. 6:45PM hazy hot dusty California day. Sun just right, came out of Resturant... And had to take this photo. The tires do NOT stick out or anything... This is completely the angle of the sun. Car looks stock in broad daylight. Looks pretty low and mean here!
I will write up more later but wanted to get this out there!
Disclaimer, I am good with tools, and projects, and cars. Not a mechanic, not an engineer, but I take advice really well, and I have others do the hardest work mostly because I am now partially handicapped--and crunched for time.
Two of my four panthers have "the lean" and two don't. The two that lean ALSO SIT 1.5 to 2 inches taller in front and EACH ONLY HAS 30.000 miles. Drives me fricken Batty!
Wild thing is... Of the two that sit high in front AND lean, one is a Marauder, and the other is a CVSPORT.
I found NOS (rare) Heavy duty front springs with same stock tag codes as Marauder.... Installed them with new Heavy Duty Shocks...AND THE DAMN CAR STILL SAT 2 INChES TOO HIGH. So I uninstalled them and had 1 coil could cut... And it sits almost exactly like the two stock panthers do.
So I then installed new rear KYB struts, and A-2220 Hevy duty airbags (Limo etc).
The new KYB shocks were installed a while back with new rear sway bar, so I just installed the new heavy duty airbags and they are BADASS. Could feel the difference in the driveway. The comparison is as striking and when you first installed New Metco Watts link and control arms....That much of an immediate noticeable difference.
COOLEST THING EVER? The mechanic has a Snap On Ethos Unit, plugged it into my port... And found an air ride control software in the unit.
First he "remembered" the Air ride height before changing the rear bags, and after he changed the bags, he simply pressed the control screen button, could cycle the air ride pump... And it went back to where I had it set previously. He then lifted car, moved the manual settings back to the middle of thier travel range, and tightened the two nuts..
Once on the ground he cycled the air compressor to inflate/deflate the bags three times... to see if we could "level the rear" and...
Get this. Asked me where I wanted the new rear height "set."
By pushing a button on the screen, UP or DOWN, we set the rear setting EXACTLY WHERE I wanted it. All while standing outside the car, on the ground, looking at it.
Having manually done this four times to get it right (in the past) .. Each time raising and lowering the lift etc... This SnapOn control unit method was SIMPLY TOO COOL!
Bad news is... Car still leans a little. It is not the bags, not the shocks, and not the springs. 1 owner car, never wrecked, still near showroom. Mechanic checked everything he could think of.
Car sits 2 inches above rubber both front and back. Looks amazing.
PS photo attached. 6:45PM hazy hot dusty California day. Sun just right, came out of Resturant... And had to take this photo. The tires do NOT stick out or anything... This is completely the angle of the sun. Car looks stock in broad daylight. Looks pretty low and mean here!