I must be getting old! Usually I can take out a 40 front spring, remove or add a few leaves as needed and put back in maybe an hour or hour and a half max. Never have used a spring spreader-just jackstands, a floor jack a bottle jack and a couple of wood blocks-have done many. Not so this time! Took me an hour just to get it removed and maybe hour and a half to redo and put back. Found the shackle bushings very distorted from install. Had some extras and all good now. At 78 not as easy crawling around on the floor.
Theres no flat rate to beat if your at home.If you can still get down on the floor,and get back up at 78 your way a head of many.
.............Just curious if the bushings were distorted just from wear or were the wishbones split at some point and the forward ends not heated and bent to correct the deflection?
You Did Beat The Flat Rate Considering If It Had Been Taken To A Shop The Kids Would Have To Find A Video On U-Tube To Explain How To Do It...Did That Help?..
bones unsplit--just looks like bushings were maybe driven in. All good now I think. Longest it has ever taken me to do one though.
All good--sits right in front now-just gotta decide what to do next-sweet fresh flathead, Columbia, trans etc etc 47K mile car restored a few years back and not driven. Nice black deluxe--if there was not covid it would have already had all running gear taken out changed over to 327 etc. Int gonna get a few tweaks this week and then chg wheels and tires out-currently red-going to black wheels, red striping etc then see where this one goes. Lockdown not fun
maybe since it has a columbia you could just adapt a 327 to the stock trans and save a bunch of work and money....
sits better--after wheel chg then maybe a touch more in back--about like the CMG std we did. Black wheels red striping with tiny V8 logo
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