<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I was recently able to get a good replacement <div>for the long spring at Ace Hardware.</div><div>Gary </div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 24, 2023, at 1:40 PM, Ron Fraser via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Stu<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Here are 3 pictures of the short spring and 1 of the long spring + the Alpine Parts List diagram, Section YX.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hope they help.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ron Fraser<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Tigers <tigers-bounces@autox.team.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ron Fraser<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 23, 2023 9:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Stu' <sabre2tgr@gmail.com>; 'Tiger Net' <Tigers@autox.team.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tigers] Seat Refurbishment<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Stu<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> These picture should answer some of your questions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t have a good picture of the short spring position.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ron Fraser<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net">tigers-bounces@autox.team.net</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stu<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 23, 2023 9:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tiger Net <<a href="mailto:Tigers@autox.team.net">Tigers@autox.team.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [Tigers] Seat Refurbishment<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I'm starting to peel the onion, pulling the driver's seat apart. Already there.s a mystery. Subject? Missing parts. The first picture below is the right side of the driver's seat. There are three holes in the plate. Wear on the lower two suggest there might have been something there in the distant past. The second picture is the same plate, mirror image, of course, on the passenger seat. One screw with a round nut are there, but there is a clear indication that there was once a similar screw in the lower hole. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I have the old Joe Parlanti article but there are no clear pictures of this area. SS specifies one round nut per seat. So what might have been in the lower hole? And how is that spring mechanism supposed to work?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><100_0783.jpg></div><div><100_5354.jpg></div><div><100_5355.jpg></div><div><100_5356.jpg></div><div><section YX.jpg></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span></span><br><span>tigers@autox.team.net</span><br><span></span><br><span>Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html</span><br><span>Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers http://autox.team.net/archive</span><br><span></span><br><span>Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/garywinblad@comcast.net</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>