mike ...
my understanding of reading the manuals (haynes and ROM) is that
while the car is off its weight, tighten everything to spec except
the vertical link/spring eyebolts, then torque them when the car
is lowered. what say yee, spit experts?
-- michael galloway
'78 spitfire
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Ginter, G M (Michael) wrote:
> The manual says to wait to tighten down the spring until the car is back on
> the ground so that all of the car's weight is then on the spring. I assume
> this is to force the bottom surface of the spring flet, thereby making it
> easier to tighten the spring flat to the diff.
> It took several trys to get the spring flatly on the top of the diff. I
> didn't get it all the way down the first time, drove the car a few miles,
> torqued a little more, drove a little more, torqued a little more, you get
> the idea. Finally, the bottom surface of the spring was resting on the top
> surface (in the groove) of the differential. And as I said before, it now
> seems to be at nearly the correct negative camber and ride height.
>
> Question to the list. Is the rear leaf spring supposed to be tightened
> completely flat to the differential?
>
> Mike
> 79 Spit
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