At 06:17 AM 2/6/2007, Wm. Severin Thompson wrote:
>You can grind about 3/8ths of an inch off the inner fender lip... but you
>have to be careful if you're trying to preserve good paint.
>You can "rool" the fender out with a suitable sized dowel or baseball bat,
>but, again, you must be careful.
>I've seen some racers actually section out the lip, and raise the lip in
>relationship to the fender, to give a "stock look".
Any of those would work, but the paint's just over a year old, so...
>Finally, the best thing you can do is add a Panhard rod, and adjust the
>side to side placement of the rear axle to best locate the tires between
>the fenders.
That's what we're planning to try first, as soon as my budget allows.
Thanks,
Rick
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick Snover [mailto:ricksnover@earthlink.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:08 AM
>At 05:51 AM 2/6/2007, Bill L wrote:
>>...no, that one sits funny...
>>...at the ABFM Portland, there is another 66 like mine, but nicer.. and
>>it too sits higher.. not as high as the ebay sprite tho.. .. i think..
>>(don't know) that they put springs from a later car in both examples...
>My 64 had that "stinkbug" look, sitting too high in the rear due to longer
>leaf springs from a later model, so we put the right springs in and now
>the left rear tire rubs on the inside of the fender. There's still some
>clearance on the right side, but you can't even get your fingers all the
>way in between tire and fender on the left. It doesn't rub too bad with
>just me in the car, but it really squealed when I added 200 lbs of
>navigator for a rally a couple weekends ago. (Ended up parking the Sprite
>and taking third place in my Mustang.)
>Maybe the "DPO" wasn't so 'D' after all.
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