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Amma:

--- Quote from: bogie on April 30, 2010, 17:41:49 ---Just want to ask,did the spring snap about 3-5 inchs from the bush,if so i know why!

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Erm, yes!

Go on then good sir, do tell.

 :-.

Amma:

--- Quote from: stevethedent on April 30, 2010, 08:54:03 ---Good decision!  [-X The handling would be extremely "interesting" if you mixed standard and parabolics. I am very impressed with the ones I got from landranger services in stockport (I spotted you are in Manchester). Good luck with it.

How are you getting on with your problem Delk?

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I've now got matching springs on the front after I fitted the passenger side one last night ust before it got dark. Did so as the weather forecast for today was rain, rain and more rain and what do you know.....




.....It's nice and sunny and dry this morning.

 :roll:

I do use Landranger at Stockport quite a bit but the Atherton branch is closer to us. Spoke to them at Atherton though and they said that they couldn't get hold of a pair of parabolics for me so I ended up driving to Darwen to get them instead. It was actually one of the chaps at Landranger in Atherton who reckon that the reason the spring snapped is down to my tyres being too hard and not having any flex in the sidewall.

The strange thing is that I had the understanding that springs were there to actually do the majority of the work of smoothing the ride!

 :? :-k

bogie:
At the end of each spring,the leafs touch,as there is only 2 leaf  they rub together causing friction and then eventually cracking/snapping. Ive snapped loads but there is  sort of an answer,use cpc springs because they have a rubber bush between the leafs so they never touch BUT cpc (chris perfect components)  went bust last year so you cant get new ones any more.They used to cost about £90 each but they are rolls royce quilty springs.You can find them about,i bought a pair or rears from old sods the other week,£30 BARGAIN!!!!!!  With new polybushes!

Amma:
 :-.

Mine has actually snapped a little bit further down than that. Where it has gone the two leafs would not have been against each other.

 :?

bogie:
Cant say where it will shap but 2 bits of metal rubbing causes the friction and when sand and dirt gets in that makes it worst.when you fit them new you should grease them up,seperate the leafs first,grease them,rebuild them and then wrap them up with a bandage like material to protect  them(cant remember what they use now) they will last a lot longer.

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