- 1. Front Suspension Rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: MIKE MACLEAN <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:48:49 -0800
- My 60 Sprite is undergoing a complete original restoration and at the moment it is the suspension that is being worked on. I am reassembling all the original parts that came off the car in the first
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00786.html (7,762 bytes)
- 2. Re: Front Suspension Rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:00:11 -0800 (PST)
- Mike, I think you are dealing with manufacturing tolerances here. You could try to loosen the shock a little and try to bolt things up, but other than that you probably have to force it. Did you inst
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00795.html (9,048 bytes)
- 3. RE: Front Suspension Rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: MIKE MACLEAN <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:27:11 -0800
- Chris, Ulix and everyone else that wondered what the heck I was talking 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 re
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00856.html (8,325 bytes)
- 4. Re: Front Suspension Rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Ajhsys@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:43:23 EST
- 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 M
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00873.html (8,079 bytes)
- 5. front suspension rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:21:35 -0500
- I'm in the midst of disassembling my latest parts car. I have discovered quite a bit of wear in the fulcrum pin area, and that the cotter pin seems well frozen in there. I suspect my '79 will probabl
- /html/spridgets/2002-03/msg00051.html (6,815 bytes)
- 6. Re: front suspension rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 11:28:44 -0800
- I don't have personal experience with them, but have heard good things. http://www.suspensionspecialists.net/index.html Gerard -- Please visit Four Points Travel - Discount Online International Trav
- /html/spridgets/2002-03/msg00054.html (7,833 bytes)
- 7. Front suspension rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:07:20 +0100charset="iso-8859-1"
- Has ANYONE ever thought of /heard of replacing the lower wishbone and outer 'fulcrum' pin with a fabricated wishbone and a steel pin into phosphor bronze bushes or similar. The Frontline kit has kept
- /html/spridgets/2000-10/msg00120.html (7,619 bytes)
- 8. Re: Front suspension rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:46:14 -0400
- The dreaded threaded fulcrum pin - been a pet Brit peeve of mine for a long time. If a same price range proper plain bushing system were available I would changeover on the next rebuild. Mike L. 60A,
- /html/spridgets/2000-10/msg00122.html (8,401 bytes)
- 9. Re: Front suspension rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 19:29:38 EDT
- << Am I missing something? >> Yep. << How about cutting off the outer end of the wishbone, getting a new kingpin cast with a longer hole reamed through the bottom end and then welding on longer 'tube
- /html/spridgets/2000-10/msg00134.html (7,714 bytes)
- 10. Re: Front suspension rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 19:35:08 EDT
- << If a same price range proper plain bushing system were available I would changeover on the next rebuild. LOL, Mike !! As I just "penned" regarding the Product Liability coverage, I would surmise y
- /html/spridgets/2000-10/msg00135.html (7,160 bytes)
- 11. Re: Front suspension rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 08:58:38 +1000charset="iso-8859-1"
- There is a conversion that replaces the bottom outside of the wishbone with a bronze bush and a bolt/nut. Sinple and easily and cheaply replaced. I think the main protagonist (Warren Reid) might have
- /html/spridgets/2000-10/msg00220.html (8,773 bytes)
- 12. Re: Front suspension rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:55:10 +0100charset="iso-8859-1"
- most Couple of questions Product Liability Insurance.....whats that? Not such a problem over here. Reinvent the wheel? Why not if the current one isn't round? Couple of hundred grand? Lira? If I can
- /html/spridgets/2000-10/msg00230.html (7,960 bytes)
- 13. Re: Front suspension rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:52:51 EDT
- Rob..it is what you must have if you perform an endeavor of this sort in the US. It is the largest component, up to 60% or so of some products, such as private aircraft. This would be especially true
- /html/spridgets/2000-10/msg00243.html (7,692 bytes)
- 14. Front Suspension Rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:31:29 -0700
- I finally stopped procrastinating and have begun rebuilding the front suspension. Purchased new British Motor Heritage A-arm pans, QH king pins, new king pin bushings, fulcrum pins, and polyurethane
- /html/spridgets/2000-09/msg00186.html (7,228 bytes)
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