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RE: sagging rear/advice

To: "'Jim Muller'" <jimmuller@rcn.com>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: sagging rear/advice
From: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:21:22 -0700
The longer axles started in mid 71, so they definitely DO apply here.  In
fact they are a major contributing factor in the sag problem.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: spitfires-owner@autox.team.net [mailto:spitfires-owner@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Jim Muller
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:16 PM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: sagging rear/advice

On 30 Oct 2006 at 22:44, ZoboHerald@aol.com wrote:

> I don't disagree with Joe per se, but I've long wondered if the
> greater problem is with the increasingly heavier "Federal
> Spitfires" from 1974 on.

Another possible factor is the longer axles which started in mid-
1979, if I remember right.  It wouldn't apply to DR's '77, or course.

-- 
Jim Muller
jimmuller@rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+


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