Lowering springs and auto lift clearance

[jwgroovin]

I took my car into Firestone for wheel balancing where my son works as an auto tech, and he commented that the floor lift arms barely cleared the side body moldings. I've got Steeda springs ready to install--anybody that's lowered had scraping problems with shop auto lifts or even floor jacks being able to clear the side rockers?

John

 

[REDFIRE 05 GT]

Put mine up on a auto lift to do the springs and had one hell of a time getting the arms out when the car went back on the ground. You need to make sure the ends of the arms are screwed all the way down before lifting if doing springs. I also have to drive over some metal pop up road blocks on the way to work (military base) the cars just clears the exhaust pipes in front of the axle and I bottomed out the lower control arm mount on one with me and my wife in the car, these things sit real low with springs.

 

[TurboE]

Drive up on 2x4's or 2x6's, then you can do whatever you want....have been doing this for years with my lowered tbird turbo coupe