Hi Have anyone tried repairing the trailing arms? Problem on mine,is that the round plate, which supports the spring, is veru rusty, half eaten away. It is the round metalplate, which is part of the swingarm, not the platicone between spring and rear trailing arm. Anyway, I am thinking that the easiest fix, must be: a) Remove spring (easy job). b) Cut away the round etalbase-plate. c) Produce new one in iron (cut it out of a piece of plate with a flamecutter) From the images in Haynes, it looks like a flat donut, eith a hole in the middle. d) Mount it and tackweld. e) Remount spring. Should be easy, durable, and go through MOT. But have any1 done this? /JJ |
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