Hitman's Pontiac Trans Am Page | 1978 Pontiac Trans Am
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Coil Springs
I noticed over the Summertime that My TA was riding a little hard on the road. It seemed like every little bump I hit would just send shockwaves throughout the car. So, I started to do a little searching around the car to see what I could find. I first noticed that the front end was riding a little lower than the rear end was.
Front Rear
Notice the difference in the gap spacing between the front tire and tire well and then the spacing between the rear tire and tire well. When I poked around underneath the car, I also noticed that the front control arm bumper was resting on the frame and didn't have any clearance whatsoever between them. That told me that my coil springs needed replacing.
Front Rear
So, I went to my local Auto Supply Store and purchased new coils springs for the front and also decided to change the shocks as long as I was at it. Now the rear shocks are easy enough to replace, but the front coil springs are nothing to mess with. You have to have special tools to be able to replace these things because you need to compress them when you take them off and put them on. So, I am going to take this into a professional mechanic so that I don't go over my head and kill myself in trying to do this. Like I said before, if you don't know what you are doing, then take your TA to a qualified mechanic to do it. This is just such a case.
Here is how the gap looks on the front tires after I put the new springs on.
