TR6 TR6 rear spring removal

[skikir]

Does anyone off hand remember if you have to remove the axles to remove the rear springs on a TR6. I must be getting old because I know I've done it several times and I'm sure I'd never forget but.... If not it's a couple hour job after work. If so it's a weekend project.

 

[bobh]

Funny, I just did this a couple of months ago and can't remember. However I think you do. I replaced my trailing arm bushings. If i remember correctly the steps were to remove thw wheel, brake drom, axle. Place a jack under the trailing arm, remove the link to the shock then lower the trailing arm with the jack. This released the compression on the spring and allowed you to remove it.
Someone with a better memory want to check the steps and comment?
BOBH

 

[hondo402000]

the bentley book says
jack up car and put on a stand
remove wheel
put jack under trailing arm
remove shock link on trailing arm
slowly lower trailing arm till shock is free

simplified version

 

[Tinster]

You do not have to remove the axles but you do
need to disconnect the axle at the diffy drive
flange. This will permit the axle to slide out
and downward as you lower the trailing arm to
decompress the coil spring.

Follow this tutorial with photos and you will
have the coil spring out and back in- in about
2 hours or so, each side.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/92509/TrailingArmBushingsFinal

regards,

tin

 

[AltaKnight]

Good grief Dale that's a terrific tutorial.
Were you a technical writer in another life?
If not you sure missed your calling!

 

[TR6oldtimer]

Did you listen to audio? Pretty neat. To bad Wiki will not allow PDF downloads and calls to display the locally stored file in a new window.

 

[Guest]

the bentley book says
jack up car and put on a stand
remove wheel
put jack under trailing arm
remove shock link on trailing arm
slowly lower trailing arm till shock is free

simplified version

This is the correct version of spring removal. No undoing of the axle, brakes, etc.

After the shock is safely removed, lower jack slowly. The spring may have to be muscled out, maybe even the axle rotated a bit and even pried down with a bar or wooden 2X to relieve the spring. It will come out.

I have to do the same soon as my rubber packing piece slipped and is causing a major squeak. New rubber packings to go in.

 

[skikir]

Hokey Smokes Tinster! The tutorial is above and beyond the call! How about an engine rebuild? Thanks!

I wanted to know because I think I had a real brain [censored] when I put in new springs some time ago. My car is a daily driver mainly because the frame is bent and I always thought the way it sits is because of it. But the more I look at it the more obvious there is something else going on. It is low on one side. If the frame was twisted then it should be low on a courner or low on oposite cornters but it's low on one side. Then it came to me I think. I have this horrible stupid feeling that when I put the springs in I brought out the rear springs and put them down on the right side and then put the front springs down on the left and installed them thusly! If I did and it returns it to an even keel it'll probably ride a whole lot better!

 

[Tinster]

On the other hand-

You could leave it lopsided and tell folks it
used to be an Indy race car. Don't Indy cars
have taller springs on one side?

tinster /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif

 

[TexasKnucklehead]

Tinster, your documentation is great. -and your car is cleaner than my kitchen.

Have you documented other TR6 stuff? That kind of reading might be what it takes for me to only have to do something once.

-Probably not. I dropped the trailing arm to replace springs. Then again to replace bushings. Then again to install the adjustable trailing arm brackets. And will probably replace the bushes again now that the car sits properly. ...but I've never replaced any bolts or painted anything.

 

[bobh]

You guys are right. I wasn't thinking that the sprong removal was a minot part of the work I was doing. I removed the trailing arms to replace the bushings with poly. So my tear down involved more than Skikir required.

Dale, I'll have to try to open your tutorial at home. the filters blocked it here.

 

[guzzul]

Follow this tutorial with photos....

Really nice job Dale. Both on the bushings and on the tutorial.