Re: Ken

Posted by Ken_P On 2022/11/7 12:23:24

Pat, thanks for that. I'll take a look.

Spent some more time this weekend on the springs. After cleaning everything up, still no smoking guns. There are some wear marks on each main leaf where the gaiters have rubbed for the last 85 years, but no cracks or anything that I can see. The ONLY issue that I have found so far, in addition to the right spring having more lateral motion when installed, is that the two leaf springs have a different static height. The passenger side leaf spring is about 1/4" taller than the drivers side.

I didn't take the frame height measurements discussed in the service manual before I disassembled, because I was expecting to find a broken bolt or spring mount.

I tore it down before I remembered that I'm supposed to have the car in a parade on Thursday. Based on that, and no obvious problems, I think I am going to trying swapping leaf springs side to side, and re-installing, using the shackle guidance above (my shackles do have the notches in the outer plate discussed in Howard's post), and see if the problem remains, shifts sides, or goes away completely.