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----- Original Message -----
From: "Telewest (PH)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "ronking" <ronking@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: Rear Leaf Springs
> Whichever is 'right' an inch difference is a lot. From people sending me
> their ride-heights the median would seem to be around 14" for a chrome
> bumper although it varies from 13.5 to 15.5. Mine used to be about 14.5
> unladen but I was fed up with scraping the middle box when laden so
> lengthened the shackles this year to give me about an extra inch. Before
it
> always 'looked' too low when laden and now looks much better, to my eyes,
> either laden or unladen. So either 14 or 15 would be OK, although for
best
> handling on flat surfaces the lower the better. Someone has claimed 12.8
at
> the front and 10.24 at the rear, but that sounds like no suspension at
all!
>
> Problems at a front corner could affect the opposite corner, I'd get it on
a
> flat and level surface and take some drop-measurements in an attempt to
see
> where the difference in the rears lies. I have never seen any official
drop
> or ride-height measurements, but I believe it can be derived. Overall
> heights *were* published, and so for an original and unmolested GT (the
> roadster hood frame might result in variations from car to car) without a
> sun roof, and with original tyres with the recommended pressures, it
should
> be possible to expand or compress the springs at each corner to give the
> same distance from trim strip to ground at the wheels front and back and
> both sides while the centre of the roof is at the published height of
> 49.75". But even that assumes that the trim strip was supposed to be
> horizontal to the ground. It would be really interesting to see what
> distance from hub centre to bottom of trim strip that gave.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ronking" <ronking@sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Telewest (PH)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 11:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Rear Leaf Springs
>
>
> > Okay, so my '71 measures ~15" from center wheel to bottom of chrome
strip
> > (passenger side), and ~14" from center wheel to bottom of chrome strip
> > (driver's side).
> >
> > Does the ~15" number sound right for a 1971 roadster? Or is the 14"
right
> > making the 15" too high?
> > Ron King
> > '71 MGB
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