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cstokes:
Whilst playing at whaddon at the weekend i managed to break/bend the rear lower leaf of my british springs parabolics.  Does any body know if it is possible and safe to just remove the lower leaf to make them only two leaf rears?

stratie:
How long have you had them?

Porny:
Why not email them and see if they can do you a deal on one??? - or repair.

Worth a try....

http://www.british-springs.co.uk/land_rovers.html

Not that far away either.



Ian

ian_s:
do you ever put a heavy load in the rear? if you dont, then i'd say just try it.
i wonder if this means that parabolics are easier to damage than the old style?

cstokes:
I have had them about a year and 6 months, i emailed them yesterday but as yet no response.

I don't think that they are more difficult to damage than normal springs, it is the lower leaf that is the problem as it doesn't wrap around the mounting eye and the clamp that holds the leaves together has a gap, whereas the normal springs have no gap between the leaves or the clamp.

I think the problem occured when i was trying to reverse out of a deep hole where the back of the landi was sunk up to its chassis, don't know wether the lower leaf hit something and this is what caused it to bend.

May just have to try removing the lower leaf, worried that the efficiency of the two remaining leaves will bw compromised.

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