Well, now that I've got a definate place to take my swivel pins to be
rebushed, I set about removing the front suspension from the B tonight.
Fantastic! It was a breeze, and within two hours I removed the wheels, let
the tension out of the road springs, and removed the entire front
crossmember and suspension sub-assembly from the car. What a bit of
brilliance that assembly is, with four bolts you can entirely remove the
front suspension and steering from the car. So, I can now strip, paint, and
recondition the entire unit as a whole. I give a pat on the back to the
designers. And a scowl at those who designed the Spitfire front suspension,
I restored that on my Spit this summer, and it took me an hour just to get
the damn grease caps off the wheels.
Now a question for you good folk who have made it through my ramblings so
far. What should I do with the coil springs? Is there a good way to test
these to see if they're still good or should I just throw them out and spend
the $60 to get new ones without even evaluating these?
Jeremy DuBois
Programmer/System Administrator
Thermalogic Corporation
'74 MGB, '76 Spit
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