Thread: Rear Spring
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Old 08-15-2019, 08:06 PM   #14
Joe K
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Default Re: Rear Spring

Heh. Your method of bolt substitution.

Before seeing this it came to me after writing my spring adventure what I did wrong with the welder's c-clamp.

The error I made was in using the clamp to "let down" the spring once the center bolt was removed.

Better would have been to use the C-clamps simply to "hold" the spring pac together, remove the center bolt without moving anything - and replace it with a Grade 8 all-thread (IIRC, rating on bolts is done by grade, rating on nuts is by alpha letter, what is the rating system for all-thread?)

With a generous length of all-thread and starting "tight" one could let down a spring in virtually perfect safety - and no risk of leaves bouncing off one's forehead.

Hindsight is 20-20, of course. And your 8" bolt is/was "reading glasses."

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