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Does anyone know what the lowest ride height you can do without causing any problems? I want to lower my 69 toro as much as I can.

The ride-height is set to make life easy on the front CV joints. At normal ride-height, the front axle shafts are straight horizontally.

Drop the ride-height, and you'll no longer have the front axles straight, the CV joints will be flexed. Within reason, this won't be a problem primarily because these vehicles don't get Daily Driver use; and therefore don't rack up a lot of miles; and secondarily because the CV joints are nicely over-built.

Remember to jack the front end before turning the screw for the torsion bar anchor. It's not designed to be adjusted while still loaded with the vehicle weight.

"I" pull the screw OUT, clean the threads, lube the threads with anti-seize and the rounded end with a dab of chassis grease, and then put 'em back in at the proper distance to get the ride-height I want.

Remember that lowering the ride-height reduces suspension travel for the wheel going "upward" over a bump.

Another way to reduce the ride height while also making the wheels look a bit better is to go with a 235-60 series tire. This will reduce the ride height of the entire car without changing the suspension geometry in any way.

It will alter your speedometer readout but that can be corrected for by swapping the speedo drive gear.

And the lower profile tires will add a slight increase in handling to the mix.