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Leaf spring removal
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:30 pm
by Onne
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
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:05 pm
by paulk
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:34 pm
by rayofleamington
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.
Get the car pretty high off the ground
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...
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:21 pm
by jonathon
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!
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:39 pm
by rayofleamington
If you then hammer this you will at least save the threads and maybe able to re use the pin
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:57 pm
by Onne
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
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:17 pm
by pim123
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 ...)
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:10 am
by Onne
That's the one!
I have undone all of the bolts, and my car has her bum up in the air again!
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:27 pm
by Peetee
and my car has her bum up in the air again
Hussey!
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:46 pm
by Onne
:D