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It's just steel. What do you think the spring shops do?

sping shops bend the metal (probably in one big bend) then heat the steel and quench it in water, this brings all the grains in the steel to the same point so its essentially one piece again.

When a spring shop reset leaves they only just warm the steel and slowly bend it in a press (start and one end of leaf and work there way to the other end).

When they make the spring in the from scratch, the steel is heated to red hot, shaped using a jig, then cooled down in oil, then heated again to get the correct hardness. Then the spring is shaped and matched to other leaves in a press.

Did anyone end up using this service?

Thanks for the info guys,

its complete minus sump, head and timing chain cover, all looks to be good condition, though have not removed bearing caps etc.

Old man has no use for it, got it for nothing, so is going sell it on, would be it worth getting it cleaned up and properly inspected/, or just sell it as is, where would be the best place to advertise it

Thanks

Hey

The old man has a engine block he has asked me to get more info on, maybe someone here can help

Its a 1500 block out of a cortina

Engine number 701M6015BA

Has a "L" under RH engine mount

Is it something special, as he thinks it is?

If so whats it worth?

Thanks

When you ditch the 3au, can i buy the aircon pump off you

take the thermostat out so it takes longer to warm up

adding an extra leaf would help, but also raise the height by 20mm or so. you could maybe add overload spring onto the bottom of the spring pack?

,Trying to source another shell to use for pannels etc,

My old man has more than a few 4 door shells, maybe something useable, Pm if interested, also in Palmy

and i really dont want to have to rebleed my brakes as im not rich at all,

hahahahha yeah i know blame simon haha he told me lol i just cbf going to palmy to pick up some spring compressers lol

there big mother ****** cable ties if that helps and there like 8 of them...

Your probably going to need the compressers the get the other springs in anyway, or did you plan to cable tie them also?

tape the jaws of vicegrips and hold the highest part of the shock, or rattle gun if you have one.

yeah id check the earth connection from body to engine, same thing happend on my daihatsu

Hi

Anyone have any info on what the setting is /with or without vacuum line connected , as cant find anything on here and google only turned up some odd info on a supra forum,

Thanks

swap the left to right, your body weight may even it out when sitting in the car, depending on how much it sagged

Id say it wouldnt seal to well, Get some kind of material laser cut or ?

So is there a story for why is was parked up?

ive heard if you use your s13 manifolds you should be alright, and few of the sensors, jsut swap them over from the blown motor

angle grinder, smells like burnout ftw

I just used engine oil in my starlet ones.

If everything else matches up... grind the sides off the main leaf at the spring eye, its legit as, just dont get it to hot.

Name: Geoff

Location: P.North NZ

Cars you own: To many Mk2 cortinas in various states, Nissan C32,33,34 laurels, 2x '94 Subaru gt wagons, Other things not mentioning

How you found out about oldschool: Club-k website

Anything else you want to add: Dont drink for the taste