spitfires
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Leaning Spits

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Leaning Spits
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:59:25 +0100
In article <5.0.2.1.0.20010414200812.01b59030@optonline.net>, Atwell
Haines <karbuff@optonline.net> writes
>At 08:32 PM 4/14/2001 +0100, Michael Hargreave Mawson wrote:
>
>> >If the front
>> >springs aren't equal, it would give the same result.
>>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>I measured my front springs today.   The dimensions from the top to the
>>bottom of the dished locating whatsits are... <cue drumroll>...
>>
>>Left Hand:      221mm (8.7")
>>Right Hand:     209mm (8.2")
>>
>>She sags a lot more than half-an-inch overall, but this can't be
>>helping!   I presume I need to replace my front springs? :-(
>
>
>Try swapping the springs first.

Will do.
>
>
>Your sway bar may be "twisted" also!
>
>Take it out, lay it on a flat surface, it should be "flat".  If not, turn 
>it over so that the drivers and passengers sides are reversed.
>
>Costs nothing except a few minutes time!

I ran out of time today, but will try to do this this week.

Thanks for your help.

ATB
Mike
-- 
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

///
///  spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list
///  To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net
///  with nothing in it but
///
///     unsubscribe spitfires
///
///


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>