I've done this! It sounds more complicated than it is. Essentially you're
running some long bolts with nuts where TWO of the spring mount bolts were
(you take TWO only out.) Then you slowly undo the nuts on the long bolts
and let the lower A-arm down under the spring tension until the spring comes
out. It's tedious but not hard and does work.
Geoff Branch '74 Midget "yellow peril"
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard D Arnold <richard.arnold@juno.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 8:02 AM
Subject: Midget front bushings
>Am hoping to replace the lower and upper bushings on Molly, the '79
>Midget 1500, this weekend. Scanned my Haynes for instructions on
>compressing the spring, and it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
>Maybe I need to be looking at the car when I'm reading it, but can anyone
>offer a more comprehensive set of instructions?
>
>Other tips, name calling, and finger pointing will also be cheerfully
>accepted.
>
>Rich
>Council Bluffs, Iowa
>
>'74.5 RB MGB "Miss Maggie"
>'78 Chevy Half-Ton "Waltzin' Matilda" (LBC Support Vehicle)
>'79 Midget "Miss Molly"
>
>richard.arnold@juno.com or rdarnold@neonramp.com
>
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