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Old 08-04-2015, 10:12 AM
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My 03 was lowered on the stock suspension when I got it a few weeks ago. However, I live in a somewhat rural area and the cowl drags on my driveway and on some of the roads that I drive. So I need to raise it back up to stock height. How do I do this? Do I need to put it on jack stands, take the wheels off and just tighten it back up? Any and all help appreciated.
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Originally Posted by koolaid117
My 03 was lowered on the stock suspension when I got it a few weeks ago. However, I live in a somewhat rural area and the cowl drags on my driveway and on some of the roads that I drive. So I need to raise it back up to stock height. How do I do this? Do I need to put it on jack stands, take the wheels off and just tighten it back up? Any and all help appreciated.
If it is not a track only vehicle there is no reason to lower it. Low enough at factory height for street driving.
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Originally Posted by BADBIRDCAGE
If it is not a track only vehicle there is no reason to lower it. Low enough at factory height for street driving.


You may want to have the alignment checked after restoring it to it's PROPER height
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Originally Posted by BADBIRDCAGE
If it is not a track only vehicle there is no reason to lower it. Low enough at factory height for street driving.
Maybe you read this wrong, but OP is needing help raising it back up, not thinking about lowering it. You post is of no help to him.

Here's a thread about lowing it on stock bolts, so I assume you just reverse the instructions.

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ock-bolts.html
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Originally Posted by lane_viper
Maybe you read this wrong, but OP is needing help raising it back up, not thinking about lowering it. You post is of no help to him.

Here's a thread about lowing it on stock bolts, so I assume you just reverse the instructions.

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ock-bolts.html
Thanks lane_viper, I did see that thread, but it doesn't say specifically and I just wanted some clarification.
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Originally Posted by lane_viper
Maybe you read this wrong, but OP is needing help raising it back up, not thinking about lowering it. You post is of no help to him.

Here's a thread about lowing it on stock bolts, so I assume you just reverse the instructions.

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ock-bolts.html
My bad.

I see that I should have stated more clearly so that the OP would understand. He bought a car that is lowered and realizes it sucks to drive it on the street that way.

I did not tell him to lower it. I told him stock height is low enough. I thought that he could make the correlation that I thought was obvious.
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I took off the side air dams and trimmed the middle one so we can drive the bit of ROCK road to our house and the voted #1 worst roads in America here is Oklahoma.......NO it doesn't get HOT because I trimmed the middle air dam...

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