You are right. I was assuming they would not knowingly be selling springs
with the wrong spring rate, but I suppose that is just as likely as
knowingly selling springs with the wrong arch.
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 8/17/06 9:38 AM, Paul Hunt at paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> It all depends on whether the extra height is due to over arching or too
> high a rate. In the former case removing a leaf would soften the rate as
> well as reducing the height, in the latter case perhaps *restoring* the rate
> as well as reducing height. Or perhaps something in between. I've also
> heard of *reversing* a leaf. With any of them the effects would depend on
> how the springs varied from the original spec.
>
> PaulH.
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