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 Post subject: What springs do I need?
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 9:26 pm 
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Hey, I've got an EL with a 5 litre in it, and I'm running King spring low V8 springs, KFFL-52 in the front, yet I find the front end is still too low, and the guards are almost rubbing on the tyers. I don't want standard height, I just want it to sit roughly at XR height, but I'm wondering if there's another spring that I can use?

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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 10:26 am 
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Gab1 wrote:
Hey, I've got an EL with a 5 litre in it, and I'm running King spring low V8 springs, KFFL-52 in the front, yet I find the front end is still too low, and the guards are almost rubbing on the tyers. I don't want standard height, I just want it to sit roughly at XR height, but I'm wondering if there's another spring that I can use?Gab


Thw King Springs Catalouge lists the KFFL-52 as the correct number for Lows, which should be similar height to the XR spring.

KFFL-52SL are Superlow and KFFL-52SSL are Ultra Low.

How old are the springs (they could have sagged)?

Are you sure that they are KFFL-52 and not KFFL-52SL?

Good replacement would be Lovells springs in the XR height FFL-47, supelow being FFL-46.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 10:53 am 
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Gab1 wrote:
Hey, I've got an EL with a 5 litre in it, and I'm running King spring low V8 springs, KFFL-52 in the front, yet I find the front end is still too low, and the guards are almost rubbing on the tyers. I don't want standard height, I just want it to sit roughly at XR height, but I'm wondering if there's another spring that I can use?Gab


Thw King Springs Catalouge lists the KFFL-52 as the correct number for Lows, which should be similar height to the XR spring.

KFFL-52SL are Superlow and KFFL-52SSL are Ultra Low.

How old are the springs (they could have sagged)?

Are you sure that they are KFFL-52 and not KFFL-52SL?

Good replacement would be Lovells springs in the XR height FFL-47, supelow being FFL-46.


Ahh ok, yeah I'm starting to think they may have sagged, they'd be a good 6+ years old (I've had them for 6 years, and they were 2nd hand when I got them) I might look in to the Lovells springs.

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