[Healeys] Leaf Spring Assembly Finished

[Michael Salter]

Just be thankful that your car isn't a BN1 where you have to add a tapered
wedge into the equation 😳

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 5:56 AM Michael MacLean, <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
wrote:

> Well, the driver's side finished  tonight anyway.  Just wanted to let the
> list know I assembled the axle to the leaf spring tonight.  Many thanks for
> all the suggestions from the list on how to do this.  I ended up doing it
> the way restorer Lynn Martin told me. (www.4everhealeys.com)  Curt Arndt
> of the San Diego club got me in touch with Lynn.  In an email Lynn
> explained how he does it.  Put a floor jack under the leaf spring and wrap
> a chain under the floor jack and around the axle housing inside of the
> u-bolt location.  I used a tie down strap instead of a chain.  Worked just
> fine.  You then set a bottle jack on top of the floor jack and under the
> u-bolt plate and lift the spring into place with the bottle jack.  Easy
> peezy.  Well, not that easy.  Took a little fiddling to get everything to
> line up so the packing piece and the u-bolt plate hole lined up with the
> pin on the bottom of the leaf spring.  At the same time the hole in the
> welded box section of the axle had to line up with the pin on the top of
> the leaf spring.  I had to persuade the axle housing to move a little
> towards the passenger side to get the top pin in the hole.  The panhard bar
> bushings had to be compressed a little to get everything in place.  I used
> another tie down strap wrapped around the frame to pull it in the right
> direction.  The pumpkin was held up into place with another floor jack.
> Tomorrow the other side, then on to the front suspension which is all
> rebuilt.  It just needs to be bolted in.  Can't exactly see the light at
> the end of the tunnel yet, but it's moving along. I have included a picture
> to help illustrate what Lynn was talking about.  The second picture is a
> little fuzzy, but shows everything connected.
> Mike MacLean
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