I've been stripping the frame of its running gear, and last night took off
(tried on one side) the leaf springs. I'm left with three questions for the
more experienced than I:
a) In the case of an extremely reluctant front eye, what have you done to
remove from the car, that does not involve fire? I have applied penetrating
oil, tried a puller (worked on the other side, but only stretches the
rubber), and used a hand sledge and drift, to no avail.
b) In that same set of leaves, when I removed the U-bolts and bottom plate,
half of the shortest leaf fell on the floor. Now what do I do? Where can
one get a short leaf for a 60 TR3a?
c) How do you clean up leaf springs? I imagine sandblasting would leave a
bunch of sand between the leaves.
Answers to any of these would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
TS81417L
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