GM E-body front springs
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:56 pm
I know this is a pretty mundane subject but the E-bodies I am referring to are the late 80's-early 90's, fwd, strut suspension with F41 option. Cars include, Olds Toronado, Buick Riviera/Reatta, Cadillac Eldorado. I have a parts manual but the factory springs are discontinued everywhere I have looked, so I am left with looking for the original spring specifications. The GM part numbers are 22528245, 8244 and 8243, stiffest to softest. What I am looking for are the usual types of information for picking a spring: configuration, diameter, bar diameter, free height, installed height, spring rate, installed height load etc.. I think this information may have been in an old Moog suspension catalog I had but it has gone missing and a call to Moog yielded "I don't have that information". I have never found a qwik strut available either which may have been a source for the information. Any leads greatly appreciated.