That's perfectrly OK. At the moment it's only being held together by
that bush. The bush being compressed is the one that takes the shock
out when the shock asorber hit's its maximum extension limit. The one
below is the bush that takes the force when the shock hit's it's lower
limit.
I have recently re-done my shock adsorbers. What the workshop manual
and hayns manual dosen't tell you is how to orientate the spring. What
you wan't to go is to have the trigangle arranced pointing out, then the
axis for the bottom bush at 90 degrees to that. The coil spring then
needs to be turned so that the ground bit's of the spring are on the
side that the arrow points too (faceing too the wheel). This stops the
spring bending and rubbing the shock.
I am pretty shure that that's the correct location, I can have a look
tonight, if it's don't work rotate the spring so that the ground bit is
faceing halfway between the direction it's pointing out in, and the
wheel.
I still can't workout wether you have the anti-clockwise coiled spring
on the left or right.
--
James Carpenter
Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
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