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The leaning Discovery of tipton
doris:
Nathan (spotted your real name now)
The spring mount is specially shaped/dished/pressed to hold the spring in position. If you put a spacer above the seat you will have to go to great lengths to mimic the shape of the seat. In placing it under the seat, where it kinda sits in a socket formed by the pressed shape of the seat, and wanging (technical term) the bolts up tight you have effectively just lifted the whole assembly off the axle and kept the same lateral integrity etc.
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ne jones:
Just thought about this.
How will a spacer under the spring seat lift the body?
Doesn't it need to be between the spring seat and the spring?
BTW i'm a shop assistant not an engineer!
doris:
I too am mechanically inept, but I found the job of putting the spacers in dead easy.
If the body mount is shot, then clearly you are best off sorting that (I think its an MOT failure). YRM Metal Solutions sell replacement mounts for around £20 (they come up on Google and also sell on ebay........ but that's a welding job.
But to answer your question......... the spring spacers each lift a corner of the chassis, and the body sits on the chassis via the body mounts (10 I think). If you have a droopy spring, or some other LR foible in the chassis, then spacing one corner may get around it.
I must stress that I have only installed spacers to BOTH SIDES of my shed to get a modest lift and keep my old soft springs........ but I have heard of people curing the leaning problem by packing one corner only........ and as others have said; some Disco springs are different for each corner...... which gives the same effect after all.
Disco-Ron:
The rear drivers side of my truck has an inch spacer in it, with the springs off, they are the same length, if you swap them over, side to side, the spacer needs to go on the other side...... so it's a total mystery....
No saggy body mounts either........ yet......
doris:
That is a mystery..... unless the springs are different rates maybe and the 1 inch gives a 'base' lift to one side............ clutching at straws.
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