[Alpines] Sunbeam Alpine Rear Springs & Bushes

[Allan Ballard]

Ron,

I had planned to install new bushings, clean and paint, but not to
re-arch the leaves.

So far as I know they are fine, just a bit rusty from being outdoors
on a parts car for
~ 20 years. 

I've never dis-assembled and re-ordered leaf springs, but if the
brackets are not too hard to remove and
Reinstall...

Allan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Tebo [mailto:mrtebo at shaw.ca] 
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 7:45 AM
To: Allan Ballard
Cc: alpines
Subject: Re: [Alpines] Sunbeam Alpine Rear Springs & Bushes

Allan:

I would guess that the spring you describe has been mis-asembled by
some previous owner, and this would have an effect on both arch and
rebound rate. If you are having them re-arched as part of your prep, I
think your spring pro wil correct this.

Ron Tebo


Allan Ballard wrote:

> While we are talking about Alpine leaf springs...a question .. ??
>
>I am in the process of prepping a pair of leaf springs I took off A
SV 
>parts car for use on my S IV.
>
>Nothing remarkable about the springs to comment upon, except that one

>Side has the leafs in the Long/shorter/shorter..../shortest order,
and 
>The other does not.
>
>The other spring has long, shorter, longer, shorter/shorter/shorter 
>order, they don't Stack from longest to shortest the same way.
>
>Does that make any difference .. ??
>
>Any opinion on whether one spring was done differently at the
Factory, 
>or is that Most likely some weird thing a prior owner did?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Allan