Chris,
The springs were too deep. I think I may have caused a slight
misunderstanding. I realize that the rigid axle TR4A also uses
aluminum spacers. That's why I think it was easy for the supplier to
mix them up. Even with the spacer there was no chance the axle would
mate up to the spring (Okay, I did get it to mate up by having six
gorrillas standing in the trunk floor).
Dave Rupert
1967 springless TR4A
1980 TR7
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Subject: Re: TR4A leaf spring woes
Author: Chris_Lillja@Pupress.Princeton.Edu at SMTP
Date: 11/25/97 12:30 PM
>
> Meanwhile, if anyone out there has a rigid axle TR4A with springs that
> they can sell, I'm ready to trade major organs for them.
>
Dave,
Have you considered having springs made at a spring shop? Spring shops are still
pretty
common because big rigs need new ones and repairs done all the time. They could
probably
make two up for you using the wrong springs for most of the measurements and the
correct eye to eye measurements.
BTW, I'm pretty sure my factory parts book shows TR4A's with a spring that uses
the big
AL spacer. Look at the shock mounting in the diagram...TR4 shocks are paralell
with the
spring, TR4A's are perpendicular...
Was the problem that your new springs were too short and too deep?
Christopher M.Lillja
Marketing Associate
Princeton University Press
Tel:609 258 4900
Fax:609 258 6305
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