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Subject:Re: '85 springs to a 90GL?
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:37:41 -0500

At 12:18 PM 11/5/2014, Nij.tp.vanaru wrote:
>ebay seemed like the logical thing to do.  Are there any additional
>suspension/alignment changes that need to take place when I add
>these springs??  I'm also going ot swap the PS rack for a manual
>duringthe same procedure and replace the upper ball joints, so an
>alignment is pretty much a given. TIA DM&FS

If you do take out the PS -- the difference in low-speed steering
effort between 205- and 185- tires is tremendous.  I found parallel
parking quite a struggle with the 205s.

Yours,
David