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by Thread Bear » Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:52 am
Big Mercs of '80's/90's suffered from rear spring failure. Often on a cold night, they would go with a noise like a pistol shot. I never really understood why but it would seem to be the spring is in stress all the time, gets worked and a change of temperature is enough to sheer from some fault within the material. I wonder if it is a sign of damper inefficiency? Unfortunately differing spec Mercs have a choice of 6 spring ratings. These are coloured. Except by the time they hit the scrappy, they are not. All being crudable rust coloured. Do you fit two old springs knowing they could fail soon or buy the right new one?
A frustration and not a task to do without the correct tools. A lot of stored energy in a compressed spring. Friend of mine uses a strutt inside a compressed spring to protect his lockup. Very naughty but his take was it would look like an accident. He did indeed get broken into but nothing was taken as the strutt insert went clean through the door and frightened the culprit off. Lucky it did not hit him. We think he must have been bent down at that moment. It would have got him in the upper torso or neck.
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