Thread: Rebuilding Model T rear spring?

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Stock springs were metal to metal. Couple ways to improve on that. First way is to buy some spring liner material from someone like Speedway. It comes in widths of 1 3/4 and 2 1/4 I think, with a lip on each side to hold it in place. You cut off the length you need and slip it between two leaves, then move on to the next one.

Second way is to drill a 5/16 hole in the end of overlapping leaves and insert a slider button that is made of some plastic type material. This creates sort of what Posies sells with their Superslider springs. This is my favorite way because the plastic liner bunches up on the edges and looks funny IMO. You will burn up some drill bits putting those holes in the spring because of the hardness of spring steel, but it is a cinch after that, the buttons just pop into the holes and stay in place.

I did that to the front and rear springs on my T, and am very happy with the results. The plastic also keeps the paint from getting messed up on the spring from metal scraping along as the spring moves up and down.

The buttons are available from Chassis Engineering, Bob P put me on to those. Here is how I did mine.


Don

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