At 03:44 PM 2/6/99 -0600, Stephen Swearingen wrote:
>I'm putting my leaf springs back together and I was wondering which
>direction the smallest leaf went? In the same arc as the others or 180
>from that. Looking at my truck the smallest leaf goes in the opposite
>direction.
Same direction. The small leaf on your truck spring acts like an overload
spring, only coming into play when the truck is heavily loaded. Primitive
version of a variable-rate spring.
Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
http://www.gordon-glasgow.org
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