Patrick,
When I took out my spring to do some other work I to noticed mine were worn
or completely missing. I searched all over the SW part of TX and found
nothing that fit the size requirement. An uncle of mine has a machine shop,
I was looking around one day at his place and I found RODS of Teflon 1.0"
thick and about 10' long.... All I needed next was to talk one of unk's
shop workers into turning some down and a cut off saw, a couple bottles of
homebrew did the job... They work great and I have had no troubles with
them at all... Call around and see if any machine shops in your area have
any thing like this...
Good Luck
N.A. Campiglia III
'67 Spitfire MKIII
'74 Spitfire 1500
http://camalott.com/~spitdrvr
----- Original Message -----
From: Bowen, Patrick A <PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 9:25 AM
Subject: Rear leaf Spring
>
> I am currently preparing to rebuild my rear leaf spring. Amazingly enough
> it seams as if the springs themselves hae not bent out of there norm. But
> the infamous rubber pad and the nylon pads under each spring those are a
> problem. For the rubber pad I obtained some sheets of rubber used by
> plumbers to make gaskets, I was going to epoxy several of these togethor
for
> the right thickness and use this as the rubber pad, any reason this
wouldn't
> work? As for the nylon parts I am lost, I tried to find Nylon washers but
I
> have not been able to find any that have a 3/4" external diameter, and
1/4"
> thick, Any ideas where to look and/or who else has done this and what
were
> your results or solutions.
>
> Patrick Bowen
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