OK, back to Toyotas.
I have to move the Celica. Iwas keeping it where I was working.
I ain't working there anymore. I don't have the money to fix it, but it has to go.
The flange on the strut that holds the spring rusted out and dropped the spring on the tire. I have to move the car about 20 miles.
What are the consequeces of totally removing the spring and driving it. All I can see in myu mind's eye is the front tire bouncing like a basketball all the way home...
Hachiroku wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ae86.gts:
To remove the spring you'd need to remove the strut from the car, or at least unbolt the bottom only and hope you can slip the spring off the lower mount flange.
Without a spring that corner will be bottomed out against the bump stop. The ride at that corner will be hard as a rock and you'll need to take even the slightest bump at a near-walking pace. Since one corner will have sagged substantially, you may also attract the unwelcome interest of the local law-enforcement agents...
An older car is a bit of a challenge. My '91's age is the reasn I've started buying annual memberships in CAA (like the AAA). The reason? Towing is free; 200 miles per tow max. I've had to use it a couple of times and boy was I glad I had it.
TWO HUNDRED MILES PER TOW!!!!!!!
I get FIVE MILES!!!!!!
Hachiroku wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ae86.gts:
Well, Canada is a big country and there's nobody in it, so it's a long tow to just about anywhere...
Re: Consequences of removing a spring? Group: alt.autos.toyota Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2005, 1:09am (EDT+4) From: snipped-for-privacy@tegger.cm (TeGGeR®) Hachiroku wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ae86.gts: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:44:55 +0000, TeGGeR® wrote: An older car is a bit of a challenge. My '91's age is the reasn I've started buying annual memberships in CAA (like the AAA). The reason? Towing is free; 200 miles per tow max. I've had to use it a couple of times and boy was I glad I had it.
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TWO HUNDRED MILES PER TOW!!!!!!! I get FIVE MILES!!!!!!
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Well, Canada is a big country and there's nobody in it, so it's a long tow to just about anywhere...
KISS. Rent a tow dolly, rent or borrow something with a hitch that is big enough to pull it (pickup or larger sedan) if you don't own something that will do, and tow it home.
Put the end with the collapsed spring on the dolly, obviously. ;-)
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My thinking on this is, this is why they make trailers. You need to put the car on a trailer to move it.
Yeah I know. U-Haul. Sunday morning...
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