One must keep in mind that there is more than one RBB front spring.
At least one is longer and stiffer. Do you remember a couple of years
ago when I was swapping them around and measuring ride heights? Dunno
if that stuff is in the archives or not.
Cheers,
CR
Paul Hunt wrote:
> One thing has always puzzled me with the spring specs for the MGB and that
> is the load weights for the front are in the order of 1030 to 1193 lbs
> whereas those for the rear are 400 to 550. Given that the front to rear
> loading is about 50/50 one would expect much the same loading on each
> spring, i.e. about half that given for the fronts.
>
> Does it make sense? Yes. Rubber bumper roadster front springs are shorter
> but have a higher rate then chrome, the result of fitting these to my chrome
> bumper roadster was almost the same ride height but significantly less dive
> under braking and roll.
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