Front spring pad

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2013: Front spring pad
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Hjortnaes, Men Falls, WI on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 10:54 pm:

I am redoing my front spring. I assume the front spring pad is a piece of leather. Is there any reason why I cannot just take an old thick leather belt and cut a piece to fit on top of the spring? Isn't that how Steve Jelf would do it?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 11:15 pm:

Nope. Seeing that the dealers offer both the original leather type and also a rubber version, he'd make one from a piece of old tire.









Here's the drawing:



Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Thode Chehalis Washington on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 11:28 pm:

Dave,
As shown by Steve the pad needed to be thicker on the ends then the middle. I did similar to Steve and made one out of some heavy rubber belting.



Jim


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 09:52 am:

The later pads were made of top material, with a 1 1/2" square pad riveted to each end. The early ones are all leather, but still have the square pads riveted to each end. I wish the new center bolts for the springs had a thicker head on them like the Ford ones did. I personally like to use a leather pad on all years.


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