Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 18:32
Very surprised that you were told to replace them.
Most leaf packs have either grease/ graphite paint on them to help with the noise, and comfort of the spring in its operation, often, and as mentioned already, you can take the spring pack apart, and grease them.
If there noisy, most often after driving in the wet, hit them with some lanotec grease in a can, it penetrates the pack better, and lubricates better than crc, rp7 etc.
Or just wipe on some excess moly grease from when you do the unis.
Older landies had leather, or canvas covers over each spring pack.
Was tempted to do the same to my lux when I fitted new springs.
My old springs in the back were sagged flat, had worn into each other over 4mm in some, the main carrier spring was inverted the wrong way, and we loaded up the lux, and travelled some pretty bad tracks, mates older one was even worse.
In saying that I would not reccomened that you do that, or anyone else, in hindsight we should have replaced them before.
If there only a few years old, I would be very hesitant to replace them unless an obvious fault has occoured, ie cracked, or broken spring in the pack.
Is this a reputable
shop you know
well?
economic down turn and all, he could be correct in stating there is a fault, but it sounds a bit odd at such new springs.
Trains
Ps, can you post any pics of the "damaged" pack??
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