Hello all
I am about to try to remove my leaf spring for the second time. I can't get any movement at all in the front fixing. Rears undo fine.
Is there any cunning plan to remove these, other than angle grinder? It might be the first time in 51 years that the fronts will be removed.
Onne
Leaf spring removal
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Onne
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Leaf spring removal
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2dr 1973 Bergina (DAF 44)
2dr Estate 1975 DAF 46 in red
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paulk
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Which bolt are you having trouble with Onne?
The big bolt responded to Plusgas and violence on mine but the 2 little bolts just seem to need grinding away.
The big bolt responded to Plusgas and violence on mine but the 2 little bolts just seem to need grinding away.
Paulk
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Has now sat in back garden for 5 years :(
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Get the car pretty high off the groundIs there any cunning plan to remove these, other than angle grinder? It might be the first time in 51 years that the fronts will be removed.
Undo the rear fixing and the u bolts
Remove/grind off the 2 small bolts that hold the plate to the side of the hanger and also remove the big nut.
then use a pair of thin bladed screwdriver to prise the plate away from the hanger, and rotate the spring on the pin. That plus some WD40 and a big hammer on the end of the pin and it should start to move within 5 to 20 minutes...
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Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block
I'd leave the nut on the pin, but undone enough to cover just over the length of the threads. If you then hammer this you will at least save the threads and maybe able to re use the pin. We have found that some grinder keys have the same hole centers as those on the bossed side of the pin. Insert the key dowels an turn, it might work! 
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agreed, but if it's not going to shift easily then not overly likely it will be worth to renew it. If the pin really is 52 years old, it's probably ready for renewal, and it never hurts to have the new ones ready just in case.If you then hammer this you will at least save the threads and maybe able to re use the pin
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Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block
Jan 06: The Minor SII Africa adventure: http://www.minor-detour.com
Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block
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Onne
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Cheers for the advise. I have got two new pins and two new plates ready 
Now on the look out for a BIG hammer and some plusgas
Onne
Now on the look out for a BIG hammer and some plusgas
Onne
Onne van der S. MMOCno 60520 Moderator
2dr 1971 White DAF 55 (with hopefully a 1600cc engine soon)
2dr 1973 Bergina (DAF 44)
2dr Estate 1975 DAF 46 in red
2dr saloon 1972 DAF 44 in Mimosa
2dr 1971 White DAF 55 (with hopefully a 1600cc engine soon)
2dr 1973 Bergina (DAF 44)
2dr Estate 1975 DAF 46 in red
2dr saloon 1972 DAF 44 in Mimosa
Onne, do you mean a cunning plan, so cunning like a fox dancing on a table singing "cunning plans are here again" ? (sorry, I am totally out of order here 
, but I couldn't let the chance go by to use this sentence from black adder ...)
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