Greetings all;
I'm in the midst of front end rebuilding of my 52 TD and have LOTS of
questions - so prepare for the onslaught ;-)
I have found that one of the front coil springs had the first 2/3 of the
bottom turn cracked and it remained in the spring pan on removal. All
has been scraped, blasted, cleaned up and primed. The opposite side
appeared in decent shape on cleanup.
Should I err on the safe side and replace BOTH front coil springs ? Is
it necessary that they be a matched set if such a thing exists ? (Moss
sells as a set, yet Abingdon sells individually).
The bad spring was also on the same side (R/H) as an SAE grade 5 (!)
bolt was located for the lower swivel link. In addition, the lower
swivel link was bronze, and the other 3 were steel. I've seen the
bronze swivel links before, but where they replacements ? I haven't
seen any reference to the difference between steel and bronze swivel
links in component chronologies. Any ideas ?
Thanks in advance.
Bud Precht (a long way from a test drive!)
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