Help, One is longer than the other...

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Help, One is longer than the other...

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Stripped my rear suspension down and had it blasted painted etc. Went to reassemble and noticed that one hydro spring is about 2 inches longer than the other :? Neither appears to be stretched so my question is are there differing sorts of Hydro springs. (The car is a Mk 1 Cooper S 1966 if that makes any difference)
Rolesyboy
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Re: Help, One is longer than the other...

Post by 66S »

Hi Rolesboy,
Yes, there are two, early and later. The numbers are covered in the Special Tuning book. Your car should have the spring with the longer spring part and shorter ends. I have a comparison pic somewhere but can't find it. This change was to help with the tail high pose of Hydro cars. It didn't fix it but helped.

Regards
al
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