Jim,
Thanks for the reply. I'm in Richmond VA. Charles Reid 1980 Triumph Spitfire > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 20:44:31 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Spits] (no subject) > > On 8 Jun 2010 at 19:07, Charles Reid wrote: > > > I haven't seen any messages yet, but I thought I might introduce > > myself. > > Welcome to the club! Many of us post to [email protected] > instead of Spitfires when the subject isn't spitfire-specific. > Sometime we post to both. > > > > > I noticed that the rear shocks seem a tad short... > > The instruction say that the car must be supported by the > > tires in order to replace the rear shocks. With the car > > suspended, and the wheels hanging unsupported, it looks like > > the weight of the half shaft, hub, brakes, wheel and tire > > are suspended by the shock. Is this correct? > > Well, if the instructions say so it must be correct, right? ;-) > > The combined weight of whee, halfshaft, brake, etc, really isn't so > much. When the car is sitting on the wheels it won't be pulling on > the shock sat all, of course. The difficult with those instructions > is that if you support the car in the wheels you first have to > install the wheel, and then you can't get to the shock mount! So if > the car is on jackstands you just prop up or jack up the suspension > components enough to let you get the shock on. It really doesn't > take much force. > > Just curious, what part of the country are you in? You don't have to > answer if you'd rather not. > > -- > Jim Muller > [email protected] > '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation $11.47 > Archive: http://www.team.net/archive > Forums: http://www.team.net/forums > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spitfires/[email protected] _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID283 26::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 _______________________________________________ [email protected] Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation $11.47 Archive: http://www.team.net/archive Forums: http://www.team.net/forums Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spitfires/[email protected]
