Rick, I checked out your photos. I've taken my Spitfire's back end completely apart several times, but on the GT6 only minor stuff in the rear. Still, I'm struck by a few things and I have a few suggestions. First, I'm cc'ing this to the Spitfires list just in case someone there can help but who doesn't read the Triumphs list.
The deformed flex joints may not be a problem. As the axle swings up it follows a larger arc than the lower arm, so the hub assembly may move further away from the diff. You should try jacking up the hub into a more normal driving position to see if this is true. (Don't tip the car over! I see you have it supported from the rear by only a single stand.) If the flex joint doesn't look better then it appears the halfshafts or the spring are the wrong length, or the diff flanges are too far apart, or something. I don't see any other way it could work. Second, the spring should sit down completely in the slot on the top of the diff housing. That rubber(?) plug on the bottom of the spring apparently must come off. It looks like the eye-holes at the end of the spring are quite elongated laterally. This is bothersome because the spring and lower arm act as an unequal-length double arm suspension to fix the camber. With so much free play in the top this allow the camber to vary. So I'm tempted to wonder if that isn't maybe a Spitfire spring instead. Or a Gt6 Mk3 swingspring spring. As I recall, even on my Spitfire the hole isn't so elongated. Don't recall the GT6. Which leads me to wonder where that spring came from. (The first one was definitely "curious".) I would think that either The Roadster Factory or Spitbits would provide very accurate parts like this, or give good advice about it. -- Jim Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.4/768 - Release Date: 4/19/2007 5:32 AM Your messages not reaching the list? Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html === This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register === http://www.vtr.org === Help keep Team.Net on the air === http://www.team.net/donate.html === unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try === http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool === Other lists available at === http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo === Archives at http://www.team.net/archive === http://www.team.net/the-local === Edit your replies!
