Re: SER1 Suspension - shackles, bushes and bolts.....

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Mark Strangways wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Currently rebuilding my Series One onto a new Marsland chassis, with Parabolic springs. All bushes are normal not polybush etc. I have some questions on suspension though.....
> 
> Would I be correct in saying that the shackle plates should be bolted tightly so they are up against the steel centre of the bush, and that this is how the bushes work? 
My understanding is that the rubber bushes (unlike the poly-bushes) use 
the flex in the rubber.

I would also say that the you don't want the spring to rattle between 
the shackle-plates, and this is achieved by tightening the plates 
against the central steel sleeve (both at the spring end and on the 
chassis end)

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