[TR] TR3 Leaf Springs?

Randall TR3driver at ca.rr.com
Thu Mar 16 23:02:05 MDT 2017


> Perhaps this question has come up before but, in looking at the
> spring diagram on page 203 of the manual, what do the "red"
> and "blue" camber laden designations in the  legend section
> of the drawing mean?

I honestly don't know.  One possibility is that they are a leftover from the
change that Bill Piggott mentions at TS3175, to make the spring stiffer.
But of course there are no other differences mentioned on the diagram (nor
entry in the SPC).

Another possibility is that they built the springs to the "nominal" 7/8"
mentioned to the right; and then graded them into "red" and "blue" based on
measurement of the finished springs (so that each car got a more-or-less
matched pair of springs).  Similar to the way that liners and pistons were
graded into letter categories.

But those are both just guesses.

-- Randall
 




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