> One more question before I jump into this: Both John B. and Fred S.
> suggest the use of a sort of home made apparatus for slowly relieving or
> restoring the tension in the main springs. I have seen spring compressors
> in auto parts stores/departments and am wondering if these commercially
> available items will do the trick.....
Will,
You DON'T need a spring compressor. In fact, I have both an
internal and external compressors. They won't work on the Morgan due
to the size of the spring. When I rebuilt the front end on my Morgan
back in 88, we got the old springs out very easily. However, we
couldn't get the new ones in. So my dad and I made a special spring
compressor. However, that didn't work either. It turns out that the
spare set of springs I had were for a +4 and not the 4/4. The +4's
springs are about 1 to 2" shorter than the 4/4 springs and have more
energy stored. Once I found that out, I re-installed my original 4/4
springs with no problems.
John
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John T. Blair (WA4OHZ) - jblair@massolant.navy.mil
NAVMASSO Code 331 - Phone (804) 523-8133 (Comm)
1441 Crossways Blvd. 565-8133 (DSN)
Chesapeake, VA. 23320-2843
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