Tim Mullen wrote --
>Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 08:11:48 -0800 (PST)
>From: MULLENT@YMV5.YMP.GOV
>Subject: Re: lotus/triumph shocks
>Concerning lotus/triumph shocks:
>One main reason for believing this is that Koni never made front
>shocks for my Elan although they made strut inserts for the rear
>(they do make shocks for the front and rear of the Europa, I believe
>- maybe Europas and Spits share the same units).
Actually, Koni certainly *used* to make front shocks for Elans. I've
got 'em in mine. I bought them in 1979, though. Check with Don Tingle to
see if they're still available.
>This all brings up a question -- how do *you* remove/install the
>springs on coilovers? I made a rig of my own, but I kept waiting
>for the spring to fly out... Can't use normal spring compressers
>because the Elan has a metal "can" over the top part of the coils to
>protect the shock rod which just happens to cover half the coils...
>Anybody got a slick method or special tools?...
The British-Cars list did this subject to death a while ago. Check out
the archives in:
URL: ftp://triumph.cs.utah.edu/pub/sol/Digests
for the ".Z"-compressed archives. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way
to search the whole set without downloading each one and uncompressing
them. Anybody happen to know how to do this or have a lead on when this
discussion started?
Ted (and stand clear when uncompressing .Z archives!) Jerome
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