Beefier springs on 2A tray

**Craigb** · 9th December 2011, 06:13 PM

and of course there is that set on ebay that is at $100 and 18 hours to go could be your answer. I will get under my S3 tomorrow and do some counting and measuring. Definitely interested in yours but will have a bit more of a think. Thank you

**Craigb** · 20th December 2011, 10:10 AM

Finally on leave and able to think clearly for a change on non-work stuff! I just put a post on the REMLR bit in case someone local has a set of military springs but wont hold my breath on that. Also I rang the local spring works here and they suggested they could insert 2 heavy leaves and new u bolts for about $400. So I am still confused what to do! If the spring works put new leaves in then i guess they can measure the spring after and make sure it is up to scratch. And no doubt there would be some obligation for them to make sure the spring does what they say it will. But that is just rears - how important do people thing the fronts are?

And I wouldn't know if I saw a secondhand spring that if i bolted it up the car wouldn't sit down anyway once compressed, but pfillery you sound like you know what you are talking about and yours sound good - did you see them on the old car or drive it, or alternatively trust the guy you bought them off? You can see where I am coming from, always a risk to transport secondhand stuff, bolt it up and then still have a prob, not that i have any reason to mistrust and no offence intended, just have this memory of helping a mate fit a replacement rotary engine to his car only to find it was also stuffed years ago!!

And it all sounds like similar money out of my pocket and is it better to support another enthusiast and along the way get him closer to where he wants his car to be......... sorry for all the thinking out loud here!

Maybe next step i should look under my car to be wrecked and see what those wagon springs look like in case you can use them pfillery and if bushes etc are good, also have you had any thoughts on what price you would be comfortable with - putting myself where you are you would need to think what it will cost you too to get your car right.

**pfillery** · 20th December 2011, 12:20 PM

Hey Craig.

Unfortunately never saw them on the vehicle but it was a case of they were there and they were cheap so I grabbed them. Given the appearance and condition of them with minimal rust apart from surface, and the fact that they seem to sit similarly when laid on a flat surface, with no spreading leaves (of course this is without load) they seem good to the point where I'd be confident trying them in my series. I wrecked a series 3 which had a set of the same springs on it with the military shackles but they were a lot worse than these, still behaved very well on the vehicle, from memory the set of good rears with worse (questionable) fronts sold at about $250 when put up on ebay, the buyer was local though so no freight was needed. To be honest, the guy I got these from gave me a heap of ex mil parts for nothing (tac plates, black out lights and panels, FFR antenna mounts, dashes, tool mounts etc) and then sold me the springs. I was confident that they would be in good condition but I guess in saying that they were cheap enough. All he knew about them was that their origin was from a S3 troop carrier. He wanted to fit them to a S2 civillian ute that had sagged springs. I know that you can't easilly fit ex mil shackles to a civi chassis either. The main reason they are still on there is so I can easilly identify the left and right side springs.

As for what I want for them I hadn't really given it a lot of thought. I know to get a standard set of springs cold reset (not the best method) is about $250, no idea of hot resetting cost which is supposedly better, but I would want to have any replacement set that I wasn't sure about reset before fitting them.

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