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From: Bill Sheehan [email protected]
Date: 19 Jan 2003
Time: 08:13:58
Remote Name: 203.29.131.3
Dennis, the springs that you have may be misleading you - you'd be lucky in this Country to have anything original left of the springs - and didn't you say that your chassis is a later model? On all orig. Sevens the leaves were held together by a rivet, in the case of the '24 it was 5/16" diam, with a head 1/2" wide by 3/8" deep. The head was not mushroom-shaped but pan head. (On '26 to early '29 the same except depth 5/16"). I very much doubt that the hole in the top leaf would have been countersunk on original '24, although some spring repair people chamfer out the bottom leaf to allow the peening-over of the other end of the rivet to spread better. If it's of help, you should have 5 leaves, nibbed & slotted, with English points (i.e. the ends have a semi-circle shape), not Long English points (where there is a long taper before the end is rounded off). Set or camber, by the way, is 3 1/2". Cheers again, Bill