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Re: Rear Spring - The results x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"

To: "James Carruthers" <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>,
Subject: Re: Rear Spring - The results x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
From: "William Davies" <bill@rarebits4classics.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:04:45 -0000
----- Original Message ----- 
From: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
> 
> This is the before and after, after being on the right:
> 
> http://www.pbase.com/image/7905483
> 
> Is the spring the only part of the car that dictates the camber? Were the 
>spring makers over enthusiastic in
> their bending?

That doesn't look too bad for a newly installed spring. I'd be inclined to keep 
some weight in the boot (I usually rely on my rather hefty toolkit!) for a few 
hundred miles and see how it settles. There's not a lot else that can affect 
camber, the obvious one would be a pair of short halfshafts instead of the 
correct to year long ones. An extremely bad tiebar adjustment could also cause 
a camber increase, but I really am talking about extremes which would make the 
car handle like a pig!
    Cheers,
        Bill.

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