St
Johns Austin-Healey Club
Jacksonville,
Florida
a
chapter of the
Austin-Healey
Club of America
One of our members Rick Stevenson’s many projects is the restoration of a gold BJ8 he purchased in pieces. The project for this meet was to install the axle, radius arms, and rear leaf springs. Members Mike Foster and Bill Maroney spent 2 days figuring out this puzzle under Rick’s watchful eye! Everyone learned a lot!
Shown below (courtesy of Bill Maroney) and a series of pictures explaining
what they learned.
Rear end tools
Wrong spring hole
Leaf spring hole
Rear end forward spring attach
Rear end axle tip up to bolt radius arm
Bolt spring front but then rear fails
Front spring loose but rear shackle still hard
Front spring loose+C-clamp press shackle
Jack+wedge +large C clamp bolts front spring
Axel&spring -2 Ubolt+2 pads+3 plates+2 jack
Extra weight on axel-jacks raise car before full spring compression
2 bottle jacks give access to Ubolts+plates
We hope that this was usefull!
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Last modified: 8/7/23