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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 28, 2025 8:50:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stephen Hutchings <s.hutchings@rogers.com>; Michael Oritt <michael.oritt@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jean Caron <vintage_roadster_restoration@hotmail.com>; Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Follow up to broken leaf spring</font>
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I bought the air springs on Amazon. They ar relatively inexpensive. (Pic attached). They are used for the aor ride on highway tractors.</div>
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Of course I have a fairly well equiped shop to make up the adaptor plates but that was fairly simple.</div>
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For the air system I used 1/4" push to connect and located a bulkhead fitting type Schrader valve in the tool tray of the 100.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 28, 2025 11:40:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Michael Oritt <michael.oritt@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Michael Salter <michael.salter@gmail.com>; Jean Caron <vintage_roadster_restoration@hotmail.com>; Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Follow up to broken leaf spring</font>
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<div style="line-break:after-white-space">Hi Michael,
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<div>That is really interesting- I’m sure we all want to hear more details.</div>
<div>You really do have a twenty first century Healey 100 !</div>
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<div>On Jul 28, 2025, at 10:42 AM, Michael Oritt <michael.oritt@gmail.com> wrote:</div>
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<div class="x_x_gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">That's very interesting. Can you provide any information re brand and model?</div>
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I may have mentioned this previously but, having struggled to achieve a satisfactory spring camber and rate for my 100 I have installed air springs (pic with wheel off) which cannot be seen without removing a rear wheel or looking in through the battery compartment
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10 p.s.i. for 1 passenger and 25 p.s.i. for 2 passengers and a full load in the boot produces a consistent ride height with no bottoming out.</div>
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via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 27, 2025 7:59:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stephen Hutchings <<a href="mailto:s.hutchings@rogers.com" target="_blank">s.hutchings@rogers.com</a>>; Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Follow up to broken leaf spring</font>
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I know you mention that you would wait for the rear end to settle and it likely will. Having said that, Mark Baker, former owner of Sport & Specialty restoration of Durand, Illinois would remove the shortest spring, the bottom one for about a year, until the
rear had settled, and the reinstall it. Usually it did the trick, I guess it also depends how much driving one does in a year.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 27, 2025 5:58:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] Follow up to broken leaf spring</font>
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<div>Well, I’ve put my new leaf springs on and I find, just as I feared I would, that it's a little high at the back.<br>
I’ve been advised to have patience and I should find they settle down somewhat. <br>
I will give it some time, but as I mentioned before I find a lot of BJ8s look as though they’ve been kicked up the backside, and now I’ve got one.<br>
If it doesn’t settle down by itself, I think I’ll use the lowering block method rather than removing leaves. It’s a pretty simple principle and the springs stay at the same rating.<br>
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I went to watch my brother race in vintage events at Mosport Park and I realized, answering questions about my car, that I’ve owned it for fifty years now.<br>
I bought it when I was 19 and it did not look like it does now, but my wife says she misses the days when it was just an old sports car and I didn’t care where I parked it!<br>
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Stephen, BJ8<br>
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