tony barnhill
Great Pumpkin - R.I.P
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Some of you have kept up with my GRM car leaf spring mods. First, I restacked them - eliminating all but 4 leafs - & turned the bottom leaf over thus making them lower the rear of the car about 1-1/2" & changing their arch. And as we all know, the MGB rear end design wasn't the best in the world. MG used the leaf springs to both damper the ride & locate the rear end. So, because the leaf springs can't do both, there is some 'rolling up' of the springs under the torque of a hard take off. Anti-tramp bars solve that. Unfortunately, the GRM budget doesn't allow room to purchase a set; so, my latest mod is an attempt to make the springs themselves become anti-tramp bars.
I clamped the front half of the leaf springs in C-clamps, wrapped them with metal banding straps in 4 places & then tightened hose clamps over the banding straps. When I removed the C-clamps, the front half of the leaf springs are tighter & have no space between them like the rear halfs do. I think its neat! Just like what we did when we were teenagers!
I'll still fabricate a set of anti-tramp bars later on but this'll help for the Challenge. You can read all about it on my web site.
I clamped the front half of the leaf springs in C-clamps, wrapped them with metal banding straps in 4 places & then tightened hose clamps over the banding straps. When I removed the C-clamps, the front half of the leaf springs are tighter & have no space between them like the rear halfs do. I think its neat! Just like what we did when we were teenagers!
I'll still fabricate a set of anti-tramp bars later on but this'll help for the Challenge. You can read all about it on my web site.