I just installed front tube shocks in the 78 Midget...it took about
4 hrs to do so (with other minor front suspension work done along
the way)...I am pleased with the results, and I'm toying with the
idea of doing the rear shocks.
Has anyone out there fitted tube shocks to the back of a Spridget?
How hard is it compared to doing the fronts? Is it worth the time
and effort?
I've installed the tube shock conversion to the front of a Midget and
to both ends of a B. For all practical purposes, I think the rear of
a B and the rear of a Midget are identical if you don't look at the
dimensions of things.
Anyway, rear shock conversions are about ten times easier because you
don't have to drill anything. For the B, I got a plate that bolted up
where the levers came out; this plate had a welded bolt sticking out
of it. The top of the rear shock got bolted there. The bottom of
the rear shock gets bolted to the hole that the bottom of the lever
shock used to go in. You might have to remove the plates that go under
the leaf springs and turn them over to get the right geometry, or you
might get a shock kit that supplies its own plates.
In any case, bolting a rear shock conversion is no more difficult than
replacing the original shocks, and it can be cheaper.
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