[Spits] Rear Spring

[Joe Curry]

After I got this message, I took a look at the photos and I have to say that
I could not find anything wrong with the before photo.  The Late MkIV and
1500 are supposed to have a fairly radical negative camber for the swing
spring to work properly.  The After photo is definitely not correct with the
slightly positive camber stance.  

People often think that there is something wrong with the normal stance of
the square tail Spits.  I don't know what you did to achieve the positive
camber but I think that you should think about reversing something in order
to get it back to its "Normal" negative camber stance.

One thing that people often do is tighten everything up while the car is up
in the air and no load is placed on the spring.  This squeezes the bushings
so that when the car is lowered, it tends to want to stay in that position
rather than relaxing to its static state.

If you did that, I recommend loosening everything up and letting the car
down on the suspension and bouncing up and down on the rear end to let the
car settle.  Then crawl under it and tighten the suspension components while
it is under load.  It helps to have a lift for this task.

Cheers,
Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Parrott
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:59 PM
To: 'Greg Stull'; 'Spitfire Group'
Subject: Re: [Spits] Rear Spring

It looks like you went from negative camber to positive camber!  Sure looks
better!


Daniel L Parrott

1980 Triumh Spitfire "PJ"
1972/1978 Triumph Spit-Six "Joesph"



-----Original Message-----
From: spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Greg Stull
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 4:11 PM
To: Spitfire Group
Subject: [Spits] Rear Spring

Hi,

I finished putting in the disks in the rear leaf spring Saturday. Sure made
an
improvement. The rear of the car now sits higher and the rear wheels don't
lean in as much.

Went on a ride this afternoon with my Dad to give it a test with two people
in
the car. It came down a little but it wasn't anything like before. I even
think it rides better. We took the Spit on some rough roads too.

Went down to show a friend who owns a Spitfire and he could tell the
difference as soon as I turned on his street. He couldn't believe the
difference. Now, he wished he would done it to his old leaf spring instead
of
buying a new one.

Now the next test is going to be time.

Greg
1978 Spitfire 1500

Here's a link to some pictures I took while working on the leaf spring.

http://picasaweb.google.com/gastul76/SpitfireSpring?feat=directlink
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