spring rebuild

I am fortunate to obtain some loose leaves and hangers, rivets and centre bolts to repair my spring pack. Got to love the broken spring eye. This set of springs I notice are not quite identical. In one the leaves are up turned slightly but not on the other spring pack.



The other set has both sets of springs with upturned ends. I will restore these shortly after finishing the frame. Probably ride pretty hard with 10 leaf springs. These will be painted bitumen black.

The rest of a spring rebuild is easy enough. Simply push the centre bolt through the leaves and clamp up. Tighten up centre bolt and cut to length. If look at the pic you will see I installed it upside down (since corrected).

 I made one other mistake I didn't check the width of the clamps prior to riveting. Had to cut them shorter in situ. Looks a bit rough as a side result. Oh well live and learn.

One point no need to get carried away with fancy painting prior to assembly. The finish will be ruined when bending the clamps. But at least there is some rustproof paint between the leaves so I suppose they are good for another 70 years??

I compared the other spring on the front part of my frame that I cut off (rather rusty). Much better now both springs and frame. The frame is definitely a CJ3A. Not now though as it looks like an MB.