Clive Posted December 22, 2020 Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 looks fine to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonMember Posted December 22, 2020 Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 27 minutes ago, Anglefire said: This looks wrong. Wrong in what way? As Clive says, it looks right to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted December 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 I wasn’t expecting the last leaf to be sandwiched like that. But if that right that’s how it will go back and having looked at the top of the diff it does make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted December 22, 2020 Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 yes the base leaf has to be the leaf thats postively located by the box clamping the plate and spring to the diff or there's no control going on do check your pivot box bolt is not bent and the rubber top pad can be obtained in poly , neither seem to last very long Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted December 22, 2020 Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Anglefire said: This looks wrong. No, that's correct and the gap at the top is taken up with a rubber spring pad. Interesting that the top leaves have buttons in between (you can see the dimples on the ends of the leaves), my last Herald renovation only has them on the bottom four leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted December 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 Yes it all makes sense now! The top bush was poly - so something has been done in the past. No idea when. but I did get a new poly one so that has gone in I’ve not fitted the lowering block - not sure it will need it long term anyway - as the front matches the back now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted December 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 Oh and has only moved back and forth a few feet so needs to properly settle. But no more time now. perhaps later - though the forecast is rain anytime soon - and I’ve got to button up the diff cover and fit the rear seat board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted December 22, 2020 Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 and check the tracking two planks and a tape measure + 150lbs on each seat Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted December 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 I’ll give it a run out to properly settle on the bushes first. Won’t be today though. But pleased it went in ok. I will probably replace the bolts in the diff at some point - I reused the old ones - I’d bought longer ones but haven’t fitted the lowering block - I don’t think at the moment it needs it. And the plain shank is longer too so can’t fit them and cut them down. but changing one at a time is no biggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted December 22, 2020 Report Share Posted December 22, 2020 if you want to fit the block later cut the rear two holes to a slot, then you can fit the block just remove two of the studs slide it in refit the front two the holes dont locate its the fit in the diff slot that locates never tried but seems a short cut to dropping the whole spring Pete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted December 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2020 Still not been out in mine yet (Can't yet as isolating) but have popped into the garage and measured from the floor to the bottom of the arch - and is now even both sides at 24 1/4" - which is 3/4" higher than Clive measured and 1 3/4" higher than mine was originally. Certainly happy enough for the moment. Just would be nice to go out in it...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted March 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 Now I've been out a couple of times the rear is sitting better - not perfect yet, but definitely better - yesterdays trip included a run down a road that they have installed speed bumps (Hateful things) - but does seem to have settled the spring quite nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 27 minutes ago, Anglefire said: a run down a road that they have installed speed bumps Some years back locally they got them wrong. Result the Buses (low floor jobs) where grounding. And the Paramedics where up in arms as they where having issues with tending to patients on the run. In the end they lowerd them and cut the sides away to acomodate commercial chassis. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted March 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 Yes these are the ones that my daily will almost straddle - my old Disco definitely would - but not the spit - though the gap between the two on opposite sides of the road was big enough to get through with no bump - which was fine until a car was coming the other way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 cant have you getting................... the hump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVD3500 Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Slightly off topic: I love the color of the car! Does it have a name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted March 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Not really - Spitty is probably the nearest thing to a name it has! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVD3500 Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 I meant what is the color called... 😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonMember Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 17 minutes ago, DVD3500 said: I meant what is the color called... 😄 Blue 🤪 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Truman Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 I can tell you my daughters Mk2 is a Porsche Blue colour, it looks somewhere close to the other Spit. Must admit I like the Anthracite wheels! we might have to invest in some powder coating. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted March 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 10 hours ago, DVD3500 said: I meant what is the color called... 😄 9 hours ago, NonMember said: Blue 🤪 I had the rear wing resprayed a year or so ago - and I did know what it was - but have forgotten now. Delft Blue possibly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteH Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 There is a really good looking blue, in a metallic, on BMW (spit!!) which is parked so regularly in our road that I suspect she works in the Doctors or Pharmacy opposite. I`d love to know what it is as I fancy putting it (or similar) on the 13/60, if and when I get that far. A few shades lighter than the "official" Triumph Mid blue colour, but not far enough to stand out as "wrong". (Might be Le Mans Blue?) I`ve been coating the interior as I finished working on each section, from a 20? year old Gallon (4.54609 Litre?😁) tin of blue hamerite type industrial paint.(hence the hand painted look in photo`s) So it won`t look entirely "out". Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted May 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2021 Fitted a 1/2” lowering block this morning. wasn’t a bad job and Pete I did look briefly at the idea of cutting it - but decided to just drop the shock lower mounts and the upper spring mounts - i bought new nuts and bolts anyway so a change was on the cards. Took a bit of wiggling to get the bolts started - used a Allen key to find the hole and then a long bolt to start the first. Double nutted the studs and got them all in and tightened up with new nuts. The studs were new too. off to test it this afternoon when I pick up the MIL and then my Mum for tea. Need to get some fuel first though. Not filled it since august last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglefire Posted May 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2021 Been out - about a 20miles round trip. But had to get fuel. Put 32ltrs in and got 33mpg. Happy with that. and it seems to drive ok. Needs to settle some more though. But wheels do look to be very slightly sticking out at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 Sounds like a nice smidge of negative camber, ideal. Bit worried about the mpg. Think a heavier right foot is required... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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