Jim,
Thanks for the reply. I'm in Richmond VA.
Charles Reid
1980 Triumph Spitfire
> From: jimmuller@rcn.com
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 20:44:31 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Spits] (no subject)
>
> On 8 Jun 2010 at 19:07, Charles Reid wrote:
>
> > I haven't seen any messages yet, but I thought I might introduce
> > myself.
>
> Welcome to the club! Many of us post to triumphs@autox.team.net
> instead of Spitfires when the subject isn't spitfire-specific.
> Sometime we post to both.
>
>
>
> > I noticed that the rear shocks seem a tad short...
> > The instruction say that the car must be supported by the
> > tires in order to replace the rear shocks. With the car
> > suspended, and the wheels hanging unsupported, it looks like
> > the weight of the half shaft, hub, brakes, wheel and tire
> > are suspended by the shock. Is this correct?
>
> Well, if the instructions say so it must be correct, right? ;-)
>
> The combined weight of whee, halfshaft, brake, etc, really isn't so
> much. When the car is sitting on the wheels it won't be pulling on
> the shock sat all, of course. The difficult with those instructions
> is that if you support the car in the wheels you first have to
> install the wheel, and then you can't get to the shock mount! So if
> the car is on jackstands you just prop up or jack up the suspension
> components enough to let you get the shock on. It really doesn't
> take much force.
>
> Just curious, what part of the country are you in? You don't have to
> answer if you'd rather not.
>
> --
> Jim Muller
> jimmuller@rcn.com
> '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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