Michael Hargreave Mawson wrote:
> I think I understand this. Are you saying that swapping the springs will
> only help solve the problem if one is weaker than the other, and that if
> the problem remains, then the springs are fine, and I must have a
> twisted car?
If the problem is caused exclusively by mismatched front springs, then the
problem
will promptly reverse itself when the spring&shock units are swapped to the
opposite
side. However, your weight in the drivers seat may well compensate. As I
recall,
Triumph used a spacer on the drivers side of the American market GT6 to
compensate
for the weight of the driver now being on the same side as the gas tank.
Personally, I rather doubt you will see any change when swapping the front
springs
and shocks to the opposite side. Certainly there is a chance that the springs
are
mismatched, but I'd consider it to be a rather remote possibility.
> Allowing for the fact that both doors are a less-than-perfect fit, I
> have perfect parallelism.
Don't look at the body, look underneath at the frame rails themselves. You're
looking for damage, crash damage most likely. Be slow, as this can be
difficult to
detect. It wasn't until I had the body off a wrecked GT6 that I saw the frame
was
wracked the full length.
If you've got a friend with a "good" Spitfire, try to spend some time beside
that car
comparing things between the two of them. This can help greatly in identifying
a
problem component. As in "hey, my spring tower doesn't sit at that angle" or
such.
It is possible that you'll ultimately find a damaged rear spring is indeed the
culprit. But I'm of the camp that would rather find out definitively that X is
the
problem, and fix X; not simply go replacing parts in hopes that something I
throw at
the car fixes the problem.
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