brucer

Thank you for all the suggestions. In the end I just had to bite the bullet and get a whole new set. I anyone needs one let me know I have some spares . Bruce

Help. Just installing a new set of STD size rings on my 1300 mkiv spit and have broken 1 of the middle rings. Do not want to have to buy a whole new set just to get one. Dose anyone know where I can get a single (or piston set) of rings. The one I have are King brand and it would be good if I could match them. Thanks Bruce

I have found my local group (North London) so I will go along to their next meeting to see what is occuring. Bruce

Hi all thanks for all the responses. I live near Stansted Airport in Hertfordshire so not near any of you. Gary I have a long length of Iron pipe and some rope which works OK as spring lifter. Here is a picture of my spring looks very similar to yours but not a shiny. My diff has six holes to attach the spring. Is this correct? Bruce

Hi Dave, Body still on mine. Is it just one side that you have the problem and are you using the original spring? Bruce

Hi Steve, Not sure how I find my local club. I am already a member of TR register but no Vitesse Knowledge there. It was all sneezed up on the OS but all bushed and lubed so should be free now. When I put it all together and loaded up the suspension, with a jack, to tighten it all up, there was just very little suspension movement before the chassis lifted off the jack stand. I think I will put it all together and take some pictures. If I find the local club I can drive it to a meet for some advise. It is all taxed and MOTed. Just need to raise the enthusiasm and stamina to take the NS apart again so I can refit the srping, then put it all back together again. :o Cheers Bruce

Thanks for the quick response Clive. I did think about turning the spring round and I will give it a go. I will try and post some pictures when I have it all back together again. It is hard to explain but when the car is together and down on its wheels, looking from the rear the body is high on the RHS. This is caused because the suspension is low and hence the shock leaver is too close to the chassis to get the bump stop in ( not the bump stop on the body but the one between the chassis and the leaver arm). Pic below of where bump stop is.

Hi everyone first post here. I have has my MKII Viteses for a few months and been working through the many issuers with it. But I am stumped by a problem with the rear suspension. The drivers side at the rear has always been high (Possibly passenger side low) so I set about rebuilding/rebuhsing the rear. I have now completed this with a new N/S damper and all new bushes. Unfortunately this has not fixed by problem. There is very little travel on the O/S suspension and I can't fit the bump stop on the shock leaver. I have had the spring out and it looks fine to me and appears to be reasonably new (limited knowledge here). I have noticed that on the O/S the wishbone is wider than the boss on the vertical link requiring a 1/8 inch of washers to take up the gap. This was not the case on the N/S. wrong wishbone or vertical link possibly or just one of those things? Is it possible that I have the wrong spring and how would I tell if I did? I had one hell of a job getting th ebolt at the top of the vertical link into the  spring eye bush. Thanks in advance for any help or advise you can offer. Bruce