...sorry... abunch of old mail never went out....
so here they are...
my X's 1977 Spit (bought back in 1977) was her year round
daily driver for 14 years and 150K+ miles
...never touched the front lower trunnions and they were not loose
either!.
Paul Tegler ptegler@gouldfo.com www.teglerizer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou" <doug@dougbraun.com>
To: "Davies William-qswi646" <William.M.Davies@motorola.com>
Cc: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 9:03 AM
Subject: RE: trunnions
Remember my recent rant on the quality of aftermarket
parts?
My advice is to leave the original trunnions in place unless they actually
appear to be worn. The rubber suspension bushings will eventually
disintegrate and need replacing even if the car is never actually
driven, but the trunnions could last almost forever if the car
is not driven a lot, or driven mostly on non-curvy roads.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 02:59 AM 9/28/01 , you wrote:
>On original Stanpart trunnions there is a shouldered step at the bottom on
>one of the trunnions (I can't remember which offhand), but recently
>manufactured trunnions seem to have lost this in the machining process,
>despite being made using the same tooling. In fact, the most recently
>produced trunnions are absolute c**p! The metal disk in the bottom isn't
>properly peened over - they invariably leak dreadfully and I have seen some
>of the disks drop out with no pressure, just gravity! Before fitting them to
>the car, try filling them with EP90 and let them stand for a few hours - if
>they leak then you will need to have the disks fixed in place by soldering.
>There is such a high failure rate on the new trunnions that I wouldn't
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