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Re: Front Suspension Rebuild

To: macleans@earthlink.net, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Front Suspension Rebuild
From: Ajhsys@aol.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:43:23 EST
Reply-to: Ajhsys@aol.com
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Sherlock Holmes, eat your heart out!  What a great bit of deductive reasoning.
And Holmes didn't even drive an LBC.  When I get my Midget (Nov. 8th) I want
to be just like you, Mike!

Allen Hefner
'77 Midget
'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport

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In a message dated 10/27/98 7:48:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,
macleans@earthlink.net writes:

<< Last week I asked the list if there was anyone that knew why my
 kingpin trunnion and shock lever arm would not line up on my rebuild of
 the front supension.  I got some good suggestions, none of which
 worked.  What I finally discovered was due to a little deductive
 reasoning and some prompting from my local resident Healey restoration
 expert.  If all the parts going back together were the same parts that
 came apart for rebuilding and repainting, they should go back together!
 It seems that the right front shock that I sent to Worldwide for rebuild
 had a pinchbolt broken off and frozen inside the end of the arm, so they
 replaced the arm.  No big deal, right?  Wrong!  The shock lever was
 replaced with what appears to be an MGA shock lever!  They are not
 dimensionally the same, almost but not.  I found this out by fitting an
 old front Bugeye RH
 shock in my rebuilts palce and everything lined up perfectly.  >>

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