Greg, After reviewing all your photos, I have come to the following conclusions:
1. You have used spacers that are too large in diameter and in thickness. This is causing the leaves to remain spaced apart and not allowing the car to settle to it's designed negative camber stance. 2. With the KYB shocks, the gas charging within them is adding to the effect because they are taking load off the spring. You might have the thing correct itself over a short period of time depending on what the spacers are made of. Because they are larger than the dimples in the spring leaves, they might slip out and let the leaves come back together as they should be. If they are made of a material that will abrade, they may wear down in short order so that the leaves are together as they should be. Please bear in mind that what unknowing people think is not correct is entirely normal for late Spits. Triumph increased the length of the rear axles by an inch on each side without changing the length of the spring. The effect was to radically change the camber to a negative condition and that had the desired effect of helping dame the tendency of the rear end to tuck the unloaded wheel in a hard turn. I hope this dissertation is useful. Joe -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Stull Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:11 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 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
