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Originally Posted by Jordo
Every single person who cuts there springs, regrets it. It will ride, and handle worse then you think it will. The better cheep way to lower it is to leave everything assembled in place. Use a torch and at the lowest point possible on the spring, get a spot cherry red with heat. The weight of the X5 will flex that section of the spring flat, resulting in lowering your X.
And to keep it a little more controlled put a jack under it at what distance you wanna lower it. Heat up one spot of the spring until the X drops and has it's weight on the jack, and repete on the other side.
Now what I said above is completely getto and your spring WILL BREAK just after that spot you got hot with the torch..... but it will take a few months for it to break tho.
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This is incorrect. The last thing you want to do is heat a spring using a torch. It alters the spring rate and weakens the metal. Cutting a spring is the safest method. The trick to cutting springs is to cut 1/2 coil at a time until the desired level is achieved. And you cut the spring a the same relative location as the end of the spring. You want to use a cutting tool that does not heat up the metal. A cut off wheel or something similar is preferred. Plasma cutter, torch, etc is not preferred.