[Spits] Swing Spring

[Joe Curry]

Alex,
Unless you are replacing the axles with longer ones from a later MkIV or
1500 as well, I think you are going to be disappointed with your results.
Triumph originally put the swing-spring in with the shorter axles but must
have found that it did not resolve the problems and then went to the longer
axles.

That is why the later cars have so much negative camber and the resulting
spring sag after a while.

You can resolve the wheel tuck problem using your original fixed spring by
adding one of my camber compensators and retain the normal stance of the
car.  It also will not have the sort of body roll that you will experience
with the swing-spring.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spitfires-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Nolan
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:23 AM
To: Alex Cherington; spitfires at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spits] Swing Spring

No, they are not the same.  Don't know the exact differences in length.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Cherington" <a_flying_scotsman at yahoo.com>
To: <spitfires at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:24 AM
Subject: [Spits] Swing Spring


>I am looking at replacing my Mk3 Spitfire spring with a later swing spring.

>I
> have the spring with the cage fitted with new pad and pivot bolt. I have
> fitted a later anti-roll bar. After I built up the spring I tried a stud 
> in
> the cage. The stud does not seem very long in that there doesn't seem to 
> be a
> lot of thread going into the top of the diff. Does anybody know if the Mk3
> studs are the same length as the MK4 How much of the stud thread should be
> screwed into the diff? Thanks
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