Date:         Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:17:03 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Trailing arm replacement
Comments: To: Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com>
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Thanks Dan,

I’ll add this to the post…
The reason I made the thick plastic pads for the perch was to be able to machine a recess for the spring end. The stock pad as you know, has a formed recess, with a corresponding thin and formed plastic pad. Those stock pads are hard to get, the replacements from vendors seem only to be plain plastic discs, not recess. I didn’t want to machine the metal for the recess if I couldn’t find a plastic pad to fit… get what I’m saying? 

Alistair 

> On Jul 23, 2022, at 10:08 AM, Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Excellent job... Thank you for showing it to us...
> 
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 9:42 AM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Finally getting round to posting a few pics of the trailing arm chore I did last month. I had modified the arms , a welded angled spring plate. Seems to work so far :-)
>> 
>> Blog post here
>> 
>> https://shufti.blog/2022/07/23/vanagon-trailing-arm-replacement/
>> 
>> 
>> Alistair