<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Simon--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Can you please post a couple of pics that illustrate what you describe in this part of your last post: </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#0000ff"><i><br></i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#0000ff"><i>"<span style="background-color:transparent">With a lot of effort/brute force and ignorance I have managed to replace the rearmost pair. </span></i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#0000ff"><i><span style="background-color:transparent">But the various layers simply won’t quite line up for the two nearest the engine. </span></i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#0000ff"><i><span style="background-color:transparent">A couple of mm, but that’s all it takes to prevent that 3/8” bolt lining up and going through."</span></i></font></div><font color="#0000ff"><i>I’ve tried every combination that I can think of….loosening some/tightening others…up/down..whatever. That elusive couple of mm.<span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">"</span></i></font><div><font color="#3333ff"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Thank--Michael Oritt</span><br></i></font><div><font color="#0000ff"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></span></i></font></div><div><font color="#0000ff"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></span></i></font></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 12:31 PM Simon Lachlan via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">MkII BT7 3000.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">So, my files show that I enquired about this back in October 1</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">999 and that I received sound advice that enable</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">d</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> me to remove and replace my car’s front springs.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">I discovered, too late, that coil</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> compressors wouldn’t fit and I used</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Aptos">4, for safety’s sake, 6” lengths of threaded rod. This worked well.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">So…..the other day</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">, I removed my car’s front rhs spring. No trouble…slowly, slowly catchee monkey.</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">But, I’</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">m having</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> a helluva job getting the spring back on. As so often, per the book, replacing is not the reverse</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> of removing. With a lot of effort/brute force and ignorance I have managed to replace</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Aptos">the rearmost pair. But the various layers simply won’t quite line up for the two nearest the engine. A couple o</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">f mm, but that’s all it takes to prevent that 3/8” bolt lining up and going through.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">I’ve tried every combination</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> that I can think of….loosening some/tightening others…up/down..whatever. That elusive couple of</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"></font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Aptos">mm</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">I seem to be missing the point somewhere. Can you guys think of what I’m doin</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">g wrong or what I may have forgotten?? Any advice would be more than welcome….</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">I have ordered</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Aptos">four</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> 12</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">” lengths of 3/8” threaded rod and the appropriate bolts. I hope</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> I may be able to line them up that way ie starting from a lower point and going up from there.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">Another questio</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">n….the car is going in to a garage in a couple of weeks. My question is this…would it be safe enough</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> to drive the car with two of its proper bolts</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> in the rear two holes</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> and two lengths of</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> 7</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">.98mm in the front two??</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Aptos">Yes, I would take it slow.</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">I’m rapidly running out of patien</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">ce and energy with this. Not an easy one without a hoist</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">. L</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">ying on one’s (aged</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Aptos">& sore) back whilst fighting with a bolshie coil spring is depressing and, seemingly, fruitless.</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">Any</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos"> ideas re the two questions, above??</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Aptos">Thanks, Simo n</font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></p>
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