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Anderzander

Member Since: 08 Feb 2011
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 999

Springs ?

I'm a bit confused about sided springs....

I've just bought two pairs of NRC8044/5 springs for my 90:

The 44's are shorter and variously listed as for drivers/os/rh. The 45's the opposite. This is both as 110 fronts and disco rears.

So my plan had been to simply fit them accordingly.

A bit of further reading seems to list 44's (or 45's) fitted as a matched pair to the front of td5 onward 110's.

This made me look at the spring set up for my td5 90: NRC9446/7, where strangely the drivers side is the longer one. As it is for HD 110's: NRC9448/9.

So why the difference ?

looking under my td5 90 the engine sits slightly more to the passenger side. So a longer spring on that side would seem to make sense - but its fitted to the drivers side and actually leans down on the left.

On earlier vehicles the tank under the driver would be a factor - but I'm not sure the spring fittment seems to reflect the model changes?

So what to do ?

Do I fit the springs as matched pairs - the two longer 45's at the front and two 44's at the rear (based on the greater front weight bias).

Or go with the 'standard' fitting and have the longer 45's on the passenger side.

I'm hoping their might be a rationale that I'm missing so I can get it right without the trial and error of trying all the different combinations.

Any help or thoughts very gratefully received.

12th Oct 2013 9:21pm

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