Here it is Spring! Time to rebuild the diesel.

[POS]

Well vacation to the Atlantic coast is soon. Our 700 mile trip to the Ozarks used 3.5 quarts of oil! It is time for the rebuild. The motor is out, hopefully pickup rebuilt spare today from my machinist, Elson Nichols, what a man!! Will pop it in this weekend. As Elson says "many miles of happy motoring"

Took off the CV repacked and rebooted, while looking around in the hole left by the missing motor I found a broken spring! Who out there has replaced a spring? Bentley manual has no info other that match spring color per axle. With axle out, if I remove shock, can I just lower swing arm and pull out the spring?

OK you forumites, spit it out.

Grease is the word
Peace'n'grease
POS

82 diesel westy
60 panel
81 diesel caddy
1990 volvo 240
2000 honda insight

[Van-go108]

There was a thread 9 pages back or so that some "Sambie" put that info about spring color and its purpose. I'll have to look myself.

"Sambie" not "Zombie" which there's no real diff
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[?Waldo?]

Yup, jack it up, unhook the shock, swing down the trailing arm, Piece Of Cake, POS.

Andrew

[PDXWesty]

Here's the text from that post. I have an 89 Westy that has blue springs in the rear and brown springs on the front. Clean the springs and you should find some paint marks.

According to Simon Baxter, they are as follows:

Front Springs:

Blue=Normal
Brown= Carat, Camper, Ambulance
Green=Increased payload
Yellow=30mm lower than normal
Violet=Syncro

The rear spring colors are as follows.

Yellow=Yellow - Normal and for increased payload or heavy duty shocks
Brown=Ambulance (UK)
Blue=Passenger vans
Green=30mm lower
2X green=Syncro

[POS]

Thanks Everbody!
Thats the info I needed.

David aka POS