Brent:
Here is a post archived by Jerome, (who did his in canvas) but
originally fom Ole Olsen, who knew almost everthing about Alpines. I
did mine with nylon webbing which I had triple folded and sewn into
replicas of the canvas ones. I thought this would be stronger and less
likely to rot. I don't have any pictures of the finished product and
mine are on the car now.
Ron Tebo
for alpines-actors; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:56:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: jerome@supernet.ab.ca (Jerome Yuzyk)
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Subject: Rebound straps (fwd)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:12:58 -0700
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I found this in my archives. It matches what I did with army canvas.
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Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 18:05:10 -0400
From: OldeAlp@aol.com
To: alpines@autox.team.net
Subject: Rebound straps
This question came up a few weeks ago, now I can give some answers.
The strap is 22" long by 1 1/4" wide. It is made up with a core of 1' wide
woven webbing wrapped in a wider piece folded in three, giving a 4 layer
finished strap. The ends attach under the buffer bracket using what Rootes
calls a lock washer - a 1' x 1 1/4" piece of thin sheet metal with 30 1/16th
inch holes punched in it - half from each side - to give a cheese grater
effect.
There seems to be a lot of slack, but it becomes taut with two inches of
axle
drop. On the side with the broken strap, it dropped 2 5/8" before the
springs, shocks, whatever stopped it. These observations were on an empty
car sitting in the garage. The dynamics of power, motion, and load were not
considered - mainly 'cause I don't have a clue as to how to do that.
Caveats- the straps on my Series 2 are not factory - they were obtained from
Rick McLeod about 1982 but seemed right. My shock absorbers were rebuilt by
Apple Hydraulics about six years ago - the one on the side with the good
rebound strap is now leaking. The springs and bushings have never been
touched - but probably should be.
The broken strap shows signs of a lot of friction before it went away.
Guess
the rear axle windup from all of those power launches took its toll.
"Ole"
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Brent wrote:
>Ron-Do you still have the info on the rebound strap setup, primarily pictures
>of thje finished product? I would also like to know the distance from full
>drop to where the strap holds. Brent
>
>Sent from my BlackBerry. wireless handheld
>
>Swampfox:
>
>Back to 2000 only - http://www.team.net/archive/alpines
>2000 back to '94 nonsearchable -
>http://www.team.net/www/rootes/sunbeam/alpine/mk1-5/archives/archives.html
>
>Ron Tebo
>
>Swamp Fox wrote:
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>
>
>>Is there a searchable archive for this forum?
>>I remember a thread about 6-7 years ago about a Volvo crossmember under an
>>Alpine.
>>Curious as to the why and how.
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