Thank you, Dennis, for that insight into later development of the rear dampers. I guess the squash of the rubber bushes had the effect of making a flange between the rubber and the arm fork pre-1938?
Big improvement in handling, especially on corners where the road surface is rutted!
I can confidently cruise at 30mph, keeping up with traffic, without a dread that the car would leap into the unknown
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So, for the trip to Morton, new links, ferodo discs, coil springs, rubber bushes (cut to length to give squash but allow fibre washers, bores opened out for tight fit on bushes), new link pins, nuts and spring washers. Brass discs allowed to move as per Austin design.
The coil spring tension was obtained by tightening the fine threaded nuts and lock nuts, with no excess thread showing. I couldn't obtain 12 ft/lbs on the nuts without the spring being fully compressed.
Thank you all for your time explaining .
Big improvement in handling, especially on corners where the road surface is rutted!
I can confidently cruise at 30mph, keeping up with traffic, without a dread that the car would leap into the unknown
.So, for the trip to Morton, new links, ferodo discs, coil springs, rubber bushes (cut to length to give squash but allow fibre washers, bores opened out for tight fit on bushes), new link pins, nuts and spring washers. Brass discs allowed to move as per Austin design.
The coil spring tension was obtained by tightening the fine threaded nuts and lock nuts, with no excess thread showing. I couldn't obtain 12 ft/lbs on the nuts without the spring being fully compressed.
Thank you all for your time explaining
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