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> From: simon.halliwell@postoffice.co.uk
> [mailto:simon.halliwell@postoffice.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 8:21 AM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Rear suspension spring
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> Hi, I've been on this list for quite sometime now whilst I'm
> rebuilding a 1967
> Mk3.
> Last night I fitted the rear spring and noticed the Haynes
> manual mentioned a
> 'front' marking on the spring. I've tried, but I can't find
> any marks, can
> anyone help either tell me where the marks are - or tell me
> how to identify the
> 'front' of the spring.
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> Thanks,
>
> Simon.
> Chesterfield
> England.
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Simon,
There should be a tag bolted to the brackets that hold the spring
together. This is the 'front'. In all honesty, I cannot find any
difference between the front and rear. I don't think that it really
makes any difference.
Doug Mitchell
dmitchel@ismi.net
'73 Spitfire 1500
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