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Re: KONI Shock Installation - Bulging Top Bushing

To: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Subject: Re: KONI Shock Installation - Bulging Top Bushing
From: Jerry <lensman@erols.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:16:05 -0400
James,

I with you all the way until you mention clockwise coil spring as both of
the ones I have appear to be the same.  I did find one interesting thing
that PO did.  Apparently he had a real tough time with handling one day and
rode the car into a curb or worse as the sway bar was pushed up into the
frame a little.  The interesting part is that this guy must have destroy the
left hand lower A-arm and replaced it with a right side A-arm.  To boot he
bent the end bushing on the sway to make it fit the left ( actually right
A-arm).  I have ordered a replacement from Rimmer Bros. and should have this
corrected.  I've owned the car for 18 years and never noticed this
phenomenon before.

Jerry  - 1968 GT-6 Mk1

James wrote:

> That's perfectrly OK.  At the moment it's only being held together by
> that bush.  The bush being compressed is the one that takes the shock
> out when the shock asorber hit's its maximum extension limit.  The one
> below is the bush that takes the force when the shock hit's it's lower
> limit.
>
> I have recently re-done my shock adsorbers.  What the workshop manual
> and hayns manual dosen't tell you is how to orientate the spring.  What
> you wan't to go is to have the trigangle arranced pointing out, then the
> axis for the bottom bush at 90 degrees to that.  The coil spring then
> needs to be turned so that the ground bit's of the spring are on the
> side that the arrow points too (faceing too the wheel). This stops the
> spring bending and rubbing the shock.
>
> I am pretty shure that that's the correct location, I can have a look
> tonight, if it's don't work rotate the spring so that the ground bit is
> faceing halfway between the direction it's pointing out in, and the
> wheel.
>
> I still can't workout wether you have the anti-clockwise coiled spring
> on the left or right.
>
> --
> James Carpenter
> Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot




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