James,
I with you all the way until you mention clockwise coil spring as both of
the ones I have appear to be the same. I did find one interesting thing
that PO did. Apparently he had a real tough time with handling one day and
rode the car into a curb or worse as the sway bar was pushed up into the
frame a little. The interesting part is that this guy must have destroy the
left hand lower A-arm and replaced it with a right side A-arm. To boot he
bent the end bushing on the sway to make it fit the left ( actually right
A-arm). I have ordered a replacement from Rimmer Bros. and should have this
corrected. I've owned the car for 18 years and never noticed this
phenomenon before.
Jerry - 1968 GT-6 Mk1
James wrote:
> 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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