<div dir="ltr">Dean & Jeff.... I can't do that. With no engine or tranny it doesn't weigh enough. The jack lifts the whole corner of the car off the jack stands. <div><br></div><div>Cheers!!<br>Jim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Jeff via Spridgets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dean, that is exactly my method too.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 7/6/2015 6:28 PM, Dean Swanson via
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I guess I’ve been
doing it wrong – I’ve always
put everything together except the spring and pan, then
inserted the spring
thru the hole in the a-arm, then put the pan on a floor
jack and jacked/lifted
the pan/compressed the spring into place…</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext"> Spridgets
[<a href="mailto:spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">mailto:spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Bob
Spruck via Spridgets<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
Monday, July 06, 2015 4:05
PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>;
<a href="mailto:bmwwxman@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmwwxman@gmail.com</a><br>
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Re: [Spridgets] Do you
have one laying around?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="4" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial">I have them,
left
and right. Let me know if and which you want me to send.<br>
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Photo of my spring compression tool attached.<br>
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Bob</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks
to all who responded. I should have said there
is no engine or tranny in the tub. I'm trying to make
a roller out of
it. I'm going to try the long bolt strategy that
several of you
mentioned. </span></font></p>
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to the brake hose lock plate, Contact me off list
if you have one you can part with.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Cheers!!<br>
Jim</span></font></p>
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Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 7:28 PM, bmwwxman . <<a href="mailto:bmwwxman@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:bmwwxman@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmwwxman@gmail.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Working on the Midget
today I found I have somehow
misplaced a part that came off it when I took it
apart 2 years ago. My Haynes
manual identifies it as a "brake hose lock plate"
for the left front
(port side) disk brake caliper. The usual suspects
do not list it. </span></font></p>
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around I'll gladly purchase
it. I'd also accept ideas on how to proceed
without it if that becomes
necessary. It appears that all it does is
support the hydraulic brake
line leading to the caliper. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Also, if any of you
geniuses (geniusi?) out there have
a special trick for a one man installation of
the front springs, fulcrum pin
and trunion bolt? When we did the Holy Sprite I
used my considerable bulk
as the necessary weight to compress the spring
while Ryan Kubanoff put in the
trunion bolt. There has to be a one person way
to do this...</span></font></p>
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have the beast on its wheels by
the end of the coming week or early next week.
Then the body sanding and Taco
Bell wrappers can commence!</span></font></p>
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OSHIT in Dodge City next spring.
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<span>-- </span></span></font></p>
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Jim Johnson<br>
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Jim Johnson<br>
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is the ability
to tell someone to go to hell in such a way
that they look forward to the
trip."</span></font></u></b></p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Cheers!!<br>Jim Johnson<br><a href="http://www.highplainsyouthhockey.org" target="_blank">High Plains Youth Hockey</a><br><a href="http://www.DodgeCityTrailofFame.org" target="_blank">Dodge City Trail of Fame </a><br><a href="http://www.EJSSM.org" target="_blank">Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology</a><br><br><font size="2" color="black" face="arial"><font size="2" color="black" face="arial"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial"><font style="background-color:transparent" size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial"><div><u>"<font size="3"><b>Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to
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