Sorry to bomb the entire list with this, but the original sender of the
most recent Spitfire rear spring question was no longer listed in the most
recent iteration of the reply from Bill Kelly
I continue to be amazed and humbled by the depth of both general car
knowledge and specific Triumph knowledge of the members of this list-
I read Bill Nichol's post on my machine at home last night and I thought
this was great advice (if I may paraphrase: "Replace the spring and settle
it, it's likely to be the source of your problem", it was the first thing I
did after I got my 76 Spit a few months ago and certainly fixed my 76's
problem, but I did this after President Mace gave me the benefit of his
experience (the manuals can't replace that priceless resource) and I
checked the trunnions, etc., before replacing the spring
rear spring problems/replacement appear to be a common issue in Spitfires,
I just got Bill Kelly's treatise in my e-mail, Bill's treatise *ought* to
be in the Haynes/Bentley manual, but even better belongs in the Maintenance
Handbook section of the Web page *along with* the Bill Nichol's admonition
that replacing the spring is likely to solve your problem!
if the original sender of the most recent question is interested in my
description (sent to Erik at bkgallry@crl.com on April 11) of my first
major Triumph experience (replacing my rear spring), please mail me
separately, I won't trouble the list with this again
Joe
Joseph R Schneider, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School
100 Burch, Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
voice: (847) 570-2565 fax: (847) 570-2899 e-mail: joe-schneider@nwu.edu
world wide web page: http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~jschneid/JRS.HTML
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