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any recommendations
>on what else I should do "WHILE I'M IN THERE"?
>
>Dave Moag
>77 Spitfire
Dave-
*if* needed, since the wheels will be off and the shocks disconnected at
one end and the spring disconnected from the vertical links, it's probably
a good time to do shocks/rear brake and/or trunnion/bushing suspension
stuff-
the grunt part of the job is done from behind the seats via the little
access port to the 4 studs holding the center (pivot stuff) of the spring
assembly to the top of the differential housing- I don't know that there's
anything else to be done "while you're there" unless you have shipwrights'
disease and want to do half shaft u-joints, bearings, etc., but I'm sure
some of the Spitfire vets like Barry Schwartz and Andy Mace will have some
ideas
I found the toughest part of the job (at least two of the nearly 4 hours I
spent replacing my rear spring) was getting the studs to rethread in the
diff housing, I finally succeeded by using a screwdriver to wedge the
spring assembly up off the differetial housing because I thought the
locating pin on the bottom of the spring pivot setup that mates with a
recess in the differential housing was leaving me with too little play-
once I wedged it up a bit so the pin/recess weren't engaged, I was able to
get the studs to thread, remove the wedge, and the pin dropped into place-
second toughest (much easier than above) was getting the pivot stuff
(salvaged from the old spring) in place, you need to compress the spring
with a vise or suitable alternative to get the holes in the pivot
"shackle", or whatever it's called, to line up with the sleeve so the bolt
will pass through
wasn't someone (?Barry) going to write this up and post in the tech section
of the VTR web page?
Joe
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