Tim,
Sometimes I find it amazing how people come up with the identical issues
very near the time I do. Goes to show, "there is nothing new" with these
cars. I have just pulled the rear spring from a parts car, which I
intend on rebuilding and fitting into my "driver".
I disassembled mine, cleaned it up and am ready to reassemble it. I am
foregoing paint, will probably replace the rubber pads with
self-manufactured ones, wire brushing then heavily greasing the ends
near the wheels to clean up the surface rust and replacing the bushings.
I'm an interested in know what responses you get for 2 and 3 of your
message (lubricant and pad material) My contribution would be, I
suppose, that I decided not to paint mine because the greased metal of
the spring looks a very dark charcoal black, the color I would paint it
if it needed it.
Looking forward to your responses,
Vic
"T. .R. Dafforn" wrote:
>
> Picked up my new rear spring for my soon-to-be reassembled 1500 at the
> weekend...
> It came covered in some kind of wax/grease which looks like a storage
> protection...
> My questions are:
> 1) Is it a good idea to disassemble the
> spring and paint all the leaves...
> if yes what colour where they
> originally?
> 2) What sort of lubricant do use between the
> leaves, just LM grease?
> 3) should I replace the rubber pad under the
> spring, and is it worth using a polyurethane alterantive?
> cheers for any help
>
> Tim
>
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