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Swing spring / camber compensator

To: spitfires <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Swing spring / camber compensator
From: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
Date: 12 Jun 2000 07:28:16 -0500
While we are on the subject of swing spring suspension (at least we were a
 couple of days ago), I have a question - If, with a swing spring rear set-up,
 all the roll stiffness of the car is provided by the front springs and
 anti-roll bar, how is it that it is the rear spring that is responsible for
 the typical drivers-side sag seen on most Spitfires with elderly springs?

More curiosity - How does the camber compensator work?  With all this
 discussion of its relative merits, I could follow them a lot better if I knew
 how it worked!

By the way, if this message gets through, it means that I have finally sorted
 my message submission problem.  For all those who have forwarded messages to
 the list on my belhalf over the last month or two - thanks!

Richard Gosling and Daffy (sagging to the drivers side - but fixing that is a
 long way down the list of her various needs!)

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