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Posted By : Darren Groves, 28-May-2007, 02:41pm

The dirty, oily spring in the picture I have just removed from my chassis, the clean grey one is one that I was going to use instead, which came off another 13/60 chassis I bought on ebay.

On my original spring it has more leaves to it, the arc is greater, and has a plate to take 6 studs to the diff, whereas the other on has 4.

Assuming mine is the correct spring (to my knowledge it's the original), what is the other one from, and which should I use for rebuilding the chassis?

Cheers
Darren

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Posted By : Charles Bushell, 28-May-2007, 03:13pm

The grey spring is a "swing spring" off a late spit or GT6. Many people fit them to Heralds to improve the handling & eliminate the dreaded tuck under. If you fit it, fit the thicker Spit front anti-roll bar at the same time. With any luck your spare chassis should have this anti roll bar fitted.

You'll need to blank off the two spare holes in the top of the diff.
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  Posted By : Jason Chinn, 28-May-2007, 03:40pm
  
  Like this http://www.canleyclassics.com/products.asp?article...
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  Posted By : Darren Groves, 28-May-2007, 04:14pm
  
  Thanks Charles. OK, I understand now....problem is the chassis didn't come with the rest of the kit.....maybe Canley's will supply the kit minus the spring!
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    Posted By : Charles Bushell, 28-May-2007, 04:46pm
    
    All you need is a s/h anti-roll bar & some new rubber or poly bushes & probably new drop links. Doesn't look like the kit includes the drop links. The other bits you already have on your spring.
    When you buy the drop links make sure you get a handed pair, apparently there are some dodgy ones out there.
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      Posted By : Jason Chinn, 28-May-2007, 04:59pm
      
      Dodgy drop links info here http://www.canleyclassics.com/welcome.asp?selected... scroll down.
      
      Careful buying a second hand anti-roll bar, they aren't indestructable and do get damaged. I expect all parts of teh kit can be bought seperately from Canleys, or any of the other usual suspect in the trade I know Canley's have the anti-roll bars made having got fed up with the old core being of somewhat varied quality.
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        Posted By : Peter & Mick Lewis, 28-May-2007, 06:20pm
        
        the only thing to watch for is the swing spring gives less positive camber and lowers the ride height, you may find the
        std shockers will only have about 20mm of movement before your bump stops inside the top can bottom and ride becomes
        hard, solution is ,cut can and remove 2 of the 3 bump stops rings or fit shorter shockers ...peter
        
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        Posted By : Darren Groves, 02-Jun-2007, 07:03pm
        
        Thanks for all your comments. I think I'm going to stick with the standard set-up, as I never had a problem with rear wheel tuck-in. 1 Late Spit / GT6 spring will be apearing on ebay soon.
        
        Thanks again!