Mike,
I just this week finished refurbishing and installing a pair of springs on
my Bugeye (borrowed from my other car), because one of my racing springs
cracked.
Since these were off the car for some time, I don't know which side was
which, but the car is level side to side.
>From everything I've ever heard from other listers, repro springs don't
hold up very well (a year maybe) before they start to sag. The consensus
has always been, re-arching is best, or have a good spring shop reproduce
them. You might want to try swapping sides and see if that does the trick
first.
Gerard
At 6:19 PM -0800 3/30/01, Maclean Mike wrote:
>Anyone on the list have a nice matching pair of rear leaf springs for a
>Bugeye they would like to sell? I don't mind paying a fair price. It
>just really bothers me to have this freshly restored Bugeye that looks
>so good and to lean so noticeably on the driver's side when I'm driving
>it around town. Spoils the whole restoration for me. I'm not so sure
>just re-arcing them is going to help that much. I hate to spend money
>for nothing.
>BTW I have a 1992 Honda Accord I've owned since new and I just passed
>200K miles and it's running boringly great. Very dependable. Probably
>put a few thousand of those miles running parts for the Bugeye
>restoration. See, Jap cars have their uses.
>Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
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