Subject: Time:9:33 AM
OFFICE MEMO Snippets Date:1/10/94
>>>... with all the clever ways of dealing with compressed springs being
discussed I am utterly amazed that there are any of us left alive to drive our
cars !
Yes, I wasn't going to jump in to this thread, but I can't stop myself. When I
did my XJ12 front coils (admittedly much bigger than the MGB coils under
discussion) I used a piece of 1/2"-13 threaded rod, nuts and washers. I got the
first one compressed and was removing parts when the threaded rod broke, and
parts flew in all directions. Something nearly broke my thumb and something
else hit my shoulder. I finished the job with 3/4"-10 threaded rod and long
coupling nuts. Overkill on safety is a good thing.
>>>I intended a simple answer, and ended up with a lecture on Spridget
styling. It is a professorial disease; can't say "good morning" in less
than 50 min.
Ha, ha, ha. I suffer occasionally from engineer's disease. You ask an engineer
for the time and he'll tell you how to build a clock.
>>>**** Oh, won't you be a proud parent! Just think, you'll come down to the
garage one day and find the cutest little 2CV in the manger :-).
Ahh, the Deux Cheval. The hunchback of the bell tower. Quasimodo. Or is it
Quasi-moto? Almost a car.
Surely the Deux Cheval Citroen resulted when a Land Rover Military Personnel
Carrier got a three day leave and spent it in the Bohemian quarter in company
with a "Fraulein von die Nacht" Borgward.
So the formula is..... lbc + lgc = lfc ? If you get a D-type and a 928
together on the Champs de l 'Elysees or the left bank in April (cue the
accordion music), would you get something like a Saoutchik-bodied Delage?
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