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RE: [TR] Early TR4 - Rear Leaf Springs

To: <lbc.resto@comcast.net>, <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: [TR] Early TR4 - Rear Leaf Springs
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:00:15 -0700
> The right leaf spring (6 leaves) has what looks like 2 extra leaves
> (same thickness as standard leaf & about 3 inches long) acting as a
> spacer between the axle and the top of the leaf spring. The left side
> doesn't have them, so when it was last driven in the 70's it must
> have gone round in circles. Any ideas?

Added by the factory, so the car would sit level with only a driver.  Some kind
of screwball racing requirement, the mod was introduced some time during the
TR3/A run and later deleted.

Randall


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