Correcting a List

[geodon]

I've just put the tray back on my 2A and have noticed a severe list to starboard.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/07/560.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/07/561.jpg

It's 60mm at the back & 50mm at the front.

I thought I paid attention to replacing the springs as they came out but I could have stuffed up.

My question to The Cart Spring Cognoscenti is: can this be corrected by swapping the springs from left to right? (You can well imagine my reaction to swapping them over & getting an identical list to port.) Or, is the solution to re-set or replace the springs? BTW that rear photo is exaggerated. This one is better:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/07/562.jpg

[DeanoH]

I had as similar problem when I did the cart springs on the OKA.
After much stuffing around it would have been much easier if I had resolved the issue in a step by step logical manner.

First thing I'd check, should there be a packing plate between the axle housing and the spring pack on one side of the axle ? On the OKA there is a 10mm packing plate that goes between the front axle housing and the spring pack to compensate for a difference in height of the mating surfaces. It's a manufacturing thing and went on the RHS or short axle side. Maybe (if the landy has one) you put this back but on the wrong side ?

Next I'd park on a flat surface and jack up the rear low corner so that both rear corners were the same height and see what this did to the front heights.

Pack the rear axle to the chassis with a wooden block(s) and then get the front sorted. Then do the rear.

This gives you a 'one dimensional', ie. front or rear, problem to fix.

If I'd done this first up with the OKA I would have saved a lot of mucking around.


Deano :)

[geodon]

Thnx Deano!

I jacked up the low side in the rear till the the tray heights off the ground were equal. When the offending wheel was 60mm off the ground, the front corrected itself so the problem is obviously in the rear.

Are the rear springs Left or Right? Is it worth swapping them over?

[101RRS]

OME springs are right handed or left handed - I would say you have the drivers springs on the passeneger side etc.

Also when installing, if your tightened all the bolts up with no load on the springs the tight bolts can cause the springs to bind - loosen off the speing bolts put it on the ground with full weight of engine etc on them and then tighten.

Garry

[geodon]

Ah ha!
Ok that's enough info for me to swap them over.
And, no, all the bolts are still loose. I have yet to fit the dropsides and a full weldmesh cage before I tighten up.

[geodon]

That did it!

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/07/538.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/07/539.jpg