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Re: LENGTH DOES MATTER ON THE tr3!

To: Paul Dorsey <dorpaul@negia.net>
Subject: Re: LENGTH DOES MATTER ON THE tr3!
From: Doug Mathews <mathews@uga.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 16:08:34 -0400
Paul,

According to the MOSS Catalog, the TR2-Some 4's used 9 3/4" free length 
front springs. The MOSS part is 661-630.

Hope this helps.

Doug

At 01:25 PM 5/15/2005, you wrote:
>Don't ask me how I did this, but, I got 2 different spring compressors 
>(both of them were tightened) STUCK while using it on one of my coil 
>springs while I rebuilt my front suspension to my TR3!  I did this while I 
>had the coil spring off the car.  The one internal coil spring compressor 
>was wound tight so that it needed help from one external spring compressor 
>which wound up with the head covered by the spring, or some such, I don't 
>know, but, anyway with the use of a third spring compressor I was able to 
>get them all free and my old spring came to life again (or so I 
>think!).  Luckily all my fingers are intact!
>    The problem is now it seems shorter, but, I'm not sure!  And the other 
> spring is already mounted so I can't use it for comparison. And I had to 
> leave it in the compressed state for two whole weeks while I searched for 
> a way to fix it.   According to some (misplaced) book, I remember that 
> the other spring was the correct length before I mounted it.  However, 
> the now free spring is only 10 INCHES in length while uncompressed.  It 
> has NO spacers on it.  Can someone please tell me what the correct length 
> is suppose to be????????
>
>Thanks,
>Paul Dorsey
>60 TR3A




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