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Re: Spies and LBCs...and YATQ (Yet ANother TR6 Question)

To: zimerman@mit.edu, british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Spies and LBCs...and YATQ (Yet ANother TR6 Question)
From: Berry Kercheval <kerch@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 20:05:35 PST
In message <94Feb27.104816pst.25547@reynaldo.parc.xerox.com> you write:
>In message <9402270535.AA12831@bolognese.MIT.EDU> you write:
>>
>>Bond actually ended up driving a Bentley Mulsanne Turbo (Convertible?) in the
>>later John Gardner (Wassisname) books, I think.  At least he got back to a
>>LBC. 
>
>That's really a BBC (Big BC) but at least it's a BC. 

Scott Fisher #1 reminds me that L can stand for Large.  I guess I was on leave 
that day.


> R&R rear springs? 

I've gone out to the garage and read the manual now.  It says, essentially,
jack up the car, put it on stands, take off the rear wheel, put a jack under 
the trailing arm, undo the shock link, lower the jack, take out the spring.

What do you think, guys? twenty minutes if you don't have to move three cars 
to get room in the garage, don't have to search for the jackstands, don't have 
to lower the car again to get the lug nuts loose, don't use a whole can of 
WD40 on the shock link 'cuz you don't have an impact wrench and don't have to 
bleed the jack first?  

It takes *me* all day, but I'm not a pro and getting paid by the minute...

It's not involved.  If the shop is quoting you a lot of labor, ask what they 
are doing *besides* R&R rear road springs.

  --berry 


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