302Rover
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Today I was looking up under the right front wing of my P6 (as we do;-) and noticed that the top front of the spring is actually contacting the bulge in the sheet metal just above it. In fact there is some evidence of scraping and this may be the source of the thumping and bumping noises I hear when driving over a bump. Then I looked at the left front and see the same situation.
Last year I removed/refitted the original springs in order to replace the rubber bits. I didn't notice at the time that the cross sectional drawing on page H2 of the service manual shows the spring support cup and the rubber cushion just behind it to be non-symmetrical. I really don't recall seeing this non-symmetry in the actual part either. So I'm now wondering if I screwed this up, getting the orientation wrong and leading to a condition where the pivot link can push the front of the spring up. Or am I imagining things here and the cause is actually something else?
I do plan on removing these springs and fitting stiffer front springs in the near future but would like to determine the root cause of this problem so it doesn't carry over with the new springs.
Any thoughts, help, advice, etc would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Tom
Last year I removed/refitted the original springs in order to replace the rubber bits. I didn't notice at the time that the cross sectional drawing on page H2 of the service manual shows the spring support cup and the rubber cushion just behind it to be non-symmetrical. I really don't recall seeing this non-symmetry in the actual part either. So I'm now wondering if I screwed this up, getting the orientation wrong and leading to a condition where the pivot link can push the front of the spring up. Or am I imagining things here and the cause is actually something else?
I do plan on removing these springs and fitting stiffer front springs in the near future but would like to determine the root cause of this problem so it doesn't carry over with the new springs.
Any thoughts, help, advice, etc would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Tom