totally correct Marin.
Extract from Land Rover 'secret' build book: 'Tolerances in the vehicle
will be plus or minus one inch(ish)'
Best Cheers
Frank
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----- Original Message -----
From: Faure, Marin <Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com>
To: 'Land Rover Mail Group' <LRO@Works.Team.Net>
Cc: <konacoffee2@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 10:30 PM
Subject: LRO: Re: Sagging springs, why.
> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:23:33 -1000
> From: "Peter Ogilvie" <konacoffee2@hotmail.com>
> Subject: LRO: Re: Sagging springs, why.
>
> >How come series rovers always sag, usually to the right side?? Don't give
me
> any of the handed spring crap as it hasn't been a factor for ages. If
jeep
> suppliers can provide springs that sit level, why can't the Rover crowd
make
> stock multi leaf springs do the same.
>
> Why should they? There seems to be an obsession among a lot of Series
owners about the
> fact their vehicles don't sit level. The fact is they never did and never
will, at least
> not with the stock springs and bushings. I think this is largely due to
the nature of the
> bushings, which can resist a spring's tendency to return to its "normal"
> arch. Also, as you may have gathered if you have worked on or changed a
Land
> Rover's springs, the things are about as crudely and inconsistently made
as it's
> possible to be without resorting to using wood as a component. Rover
Parts uses
> a lot of different suppliers for things like springs, and I suspect the
specs are REALLY
> sloppy in terms of defining the metal and other characteristics. So I'm
willing to bet that
> the actual spring rates among even a brand new set of springs are all over
the map. Any
> consistency will be totally by accident. The company seemed to know this,
as the
> tolerances for body corner height off the floor given in the shop manual
are pretty wide.
>
> My own SIII leans with
> no consistency whatsoever, and his has done so from the day it left the
factory, or at
> least the day I took delivery in 1973. It all depends on who or what was
in it last, the direction of
> the last corner it went around, and so on. Sometimes it leans a bit to
the left. Sometimes
> it leans a bit to the right. Sometimes it doesn't lean at all. If you
don't like the way it's sitting,
> reach up after you get out and push up or pull down on the rain gutter on
your side of the vehicle
> until it's sitting the way you like it. It will stay that way until you
get back in it again. It's the
> nature of the beast, and short of going to completely different springs
and bushings, the thing's
> gonna lean one way or the other most of the time.
>
> But who's to say your Land Rover's leaning?
> Maybe it's your part of the planet that's off kilter. Don't overlook that
possibility....
>
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