Dunno?

So I look at Jim's spring photo, then I look at a chart from Moss. Hmmm. Moss says 948/1098 should be yellow paint and 9-5/8
1275 green paint and 10"
1500 blue paint and 10-1/4

Ain't jiving...... dang.

Now what?

Peter C.

The standard ones from Moss, nothing fancy.
However, if I'd have known now, what I knew 2 days after I bought them, I'd have gotten the lowered.....

Barry the lowered ones are very stiff and lower than advertised. I have a set on my Midget and it is almost too low for a street car.

Trevor, I think you may know where my thinking was heading...
Anyway, I guess it's not a surface crack anymore....
That may be a little trickier to remove than I thought.

Should be easier to remove.

I can't remember exactly how I did my springs. I think I jacked it up and then took off the wheel and put a jack stand under the spindle, then let the jack pressure off so the spindle was resting on the jack stand and then removed the shock bolt at the top and then jacked it back up and slowly relieved the spring tension as it went up.

No difference in how you do it....jack under spring pan doesn't know the spring is broken!

Maybe you can clean all that oil off when you get in there barry

That break, ie shorter spring, just makes the job easier.

Peter-I checked both sides and the top trunion bolt assembly is outboard rather than inboard.

Well I did that, gave that area a good cleaning, and to my surprise, the dampers are red!?!?
Were they red from the factory?
Anyway, I can't work on this, I can't get my jack stands high enough.
I have a buddy with a lift, we'll play on monday.

One last question.. The new springs I have look considerably taller than the area they are going into. I know they'll compress to fit in there, but will they settle like leaf springs?
Just reading the horror stories about the right size springs has me a little concerned...

They will compress, think weight of car.

That was a nasty job. Not so much the springs, but the upper bushing. The side with the cracked spring had siezed, and no windy, PB or heat was moving that thing. An air hammer did.
I left the lower bushings alone, I wasn't prepared to go into that battle.

Anyway, all back together and it has made a CONSIDERABLE difference already. I'll do the bump stops tonight, and should be ready for Saturdays autocross!
Yay!
Cheers guys!

Way to go. Actually lower bushings are not that big of a deal.