The magic box at the top of the suspension is indeed the shock absorber.
I would be hesitant to drive it much until you know what is going on in
your loose suspension.
Get a manual on ebay and moss motors or Victoria British catalog. They
catalogs both have good exploded views of the suspension.
Also, check out this page http://www.jhorton3.net/suspension.html to get an
idea of what is going on up front.
Oh, and do what corvallis (bill?) suggested.
Brian
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Chris Rae <Chris.Rae@microsoft.com> wrote:
> First off, hello - have been lurking here for a few weeks reading about
> holy
> sprites, but I've now bolstered up courage to ask something.
>
> I have recently become the proud owner of a '65 Sprite. I have no idea what
> I'm doing. I've never lifted a finger to repair my own car before, and so
> far
> this has been a genuinely interesting exercise in doing things not quite
> the
> right way. I've managed to fix up a few obvious things that are wrong and
> am
> in the process of stopping it from overheating (bah), but now I have a
> question that I don't even know where to start with.
>
> The car has a habit of rather violently leaping in some random direction
> (well, actually, come to think of it it's always to the right) whilst
> zooming
> down the freeway. Well, I say zooming, but it's probably about 50mph. It's
> a
> reasonably unsettling manoeuvre - I am 100% sure that it's not a steering
> problem and is some sort of issue with the way in which the wheels are
> connected to the body, or with the suspension. The nearest thing I can
> equate
> it to is that it feels much like a giant hand has come down and given the
> nose
> of my car a shove to the right.
>
> Any ideas? I've done the moron diagnosis of waggling the tires and peering
> to
> see if anything has fallen off, but there's nothing obvious. Also they
> appear
> to have forgotten to put shocks on the car in the factory, because I can't
> see
> where they are?! Are they in the strange magic box that's at the top of one
> of
> the arms?
>
> Any help much appreciated,
>
> Chris (Seattle, WA right now, but formerly Edinburgh, UK)
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