Guy,
Do you mean the nut at the very top/centre?
You need a rattle gun.
Lock washers?
The 'D' hole ones with the tabs that eventually brake off if you try to use them more than once or twice?
See PM.
Guy,
Do you mean the nut at the very top/centre?
You need a rattle gun.
Lock washers?
The 'D' hole ones with the tabs that eventually brake off if you try to use them more than once or twice?
See PM.
I wouldn't powder coat the springs unless you are sure that the heating process wont affect the temper of the material. SOme powder coaters are quite sloppy about temperatures and you could damage the springs. In addition, you would need to get these springs really clean and have them pretreated with a phosphate or similar if you wanted the coating to stick otherwise it will just tend to peel off in a year or two.
The key will be to get the springs really clean and grease free, apply a metal primer (POR15 metal ready is good - you should be able to see a change to the surface as the coating builds up), then top coat - most liquid paints will have the flexibility. Semi gloss finishes tend to last better under the car than either full gloss or matt.
Hope this helps.
We paint quite a few springs for Porsche Cup cars, We use acid etch primer which is easy to use and available in aerosol cans followed by standard 2K paint in any colour you like. If you are really worried about flexibility Standox do a addative called Standflex which is designed primarily for flexible plastic parts but can be added to the top coat to give added flexibility.
If the end coil is open, slip some heatshrink sleeping over?
"Sleeping Over"? You sure you have your mind on the subject in hand here, John?
It's this bloody phone! It changed cnut to Cynthia once!
Foot off!, Cynthia!Originally Posted by strat24v
If there old springs Guy I would bite the bullet and just buy new ones. They would have lost there original spring rate by now anyway. Car would feel better on a new set.
Graham
Hi Guy,
My Leda struts are M14 x 1.5mm. I have a die if you need it to clean up the threads.
Ref the springs.. I recently got a new set made in Sheffield £80 for the pair plus VAT and carriage. (300lb spring rate)
The company was "Springcoil"
I know you may not want to do this, but your springs may be a bit tired.
I have an original set of springs from Gerry that you can have, but they're VERY hard.
Cheers
Andrew
Guy, i have a full set of rear suspension including top mounts, see PM
dave
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