After I got this message, I took a look at the photos and I have to say that I could not find anything wrong with the before photo. The Late MkIV and 1500 are supposed to have a fairly radical negative camber for the swing spring to work properly. The After photo is definitely not correct with the slightly positive camber stance.
People often think that there is something wrong with the normal stance of the square tail Spits. I don't know what you did to achieve the positive camber but I think that you should think about reversing something in order to get it back to its "Normal" negative camber stance. One thing that people often do is tighten everything up while the car is up in the air and no load is placed on the spring. This squeezes the bushings so that when the car is lowered, it tends to want to stay in that position rather than relaxing to its static state. If you did that, I recommend loosening everything up and letting the car down on the suspension and bouncing up and down on the rear end to let the car settle. Then crawl under it and tighten the suspension components while it is under load. It helps to have a lift for this task. Cheers, Joe -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Parrott Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:59 PM To: 'Greg Stull'; 'Spitfire Group' Subject: Re: [Spits] Rear Spring It looks like you went from negative camber to positive camber! Sure looks better! Daniel L Parrott 1980 Triumh Spitfire "PJ" 1972/1978 Triumph Spit-Six "Joesph" -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Stull Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 4:11 PM To: Spitfire Group Subject: [Spits] Rear Spring Hi, I finished putting in the disks in the rear leaf spring Saturday. Sure made an improvement. The rear of the car now sits higher and the rear wheels don't lean in as much. Went on a ride this afternoon with my Dad to give it a test with two people in the car. It came down a little but it wasn't anything like before. I even think it rides better. We took the Spit on some rough roads too. Went down to show a friend who owns a Spitfire and he could tell the difference as soon as I turned on his street. He couldn't believe the difference. Now, he wished he would done it to his old leaf spring instead of buying a new one. Now the next test is going to be time. Greg 1978 Spitfire 1500 Here's a link to some pictures I took while working on the leaf spring. http://picasaweb.google.com/gastul76/SpitfireSpring?feat=directlink [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive You are subscribed as [email protected] [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html You are subscribed as [email protected] [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
