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Re: Driver side lean

To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Driver side lean
From: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:36:51 -0400
My 1980's have no driver side sag.  One has been lightened, the other is bone 
stock.

On those Spitfires I observe suffering from obvious leaning, when talking to 
the owners not a one has ever had a full 4 wheel alignment done to the car.  
Some have had a spacer in the right front spring perch. Others have shown crash 
damage or simply some bizzare stacks of shims in the front a-arm mounts. 

There does seem to be a total rear end sag that afflicts the later US model 
runs.  Since the front bumper actually weights more than the rear, I don't 
think the weight of the rear bumper is the complete cause.  It may well be that 
the later rear spring was made of a poorer material.

>>> <ZoboHerald@aol.com> 04/14/04 12:15PM >>>

Alternatively, anyone with a later "Federal" Spitfire that has been "lightened" 
by removal of the extra bumper weight? Do you still see the "sag" over time?

--Andy Mace


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