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Subject: [6pack] Fw: Re: springs - back to stock?
From: Sally or Dick Taylor <tr6taylor@webtv.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:37:49 GMT
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sally or Dick Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, December 7, 2010 12:36 PM
To: Jim Jones, 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [6pack] springs - back to stock?

Jim---I too am aware of the crumbling road conditions. At one time in Ca. we 
rode on billiard tops, and firmer springs, shocks and bushings, along with 
shorter sidewalls were a decent tradeoff for better handling.
Sadly, this is not so, lately.
Yes, going back to new, stock springs should give you back some of the 
compliance in your ride. Also consider some of the other things, above. No 
doubt your original springs aren't worth re-installing. You can still get new 
ones from TSI and TRF, and other TR6 parts suppliers. Can't say which one 
offers the closest to the ride you're looking for.

Dick 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Jones
Sent: Sunday, December 5, 2010 5:15 PM
To: 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: [6pack] springs - back to stock?

My car has a set of Goodparts springs and the suspension uses the nylatron
bushes. Great for handling on smooth winding roads ... if you can find any.
Maybe I'm succumbing to dottage from my advancing years, but the car is
starting to be painful to drive much of the time. I'm going to install poly
bushes front and rear and go back to stock springs with poly packing rings. My
questions are:
 
1.) Will this produce a more reasonable ride on my crumbling local roads?
 
2,) If so, whose "stock" springs most closely achive the correct stock height?
I have the original springs, but I presume that these have probably sagged
already.
 
Jim
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