Hello Graham,
Thanks for your reply, points valid and well taken. It is a 1968 Plus 4 four seater with 34,000 miles in canada, almost certainly never driven in winter or it would be dust by now. It sat unused for 15 years in a barn where I found it with a baffed TR4A engine......in true "barn find" condition it needed everything. Still finishing him up.
I had the front axle frame out when I did the bare chassis job. There was some rust but not serious. Bottom of the scuttle skirts too, replaced metal there.
Installed the brake braces to stiffen up the front suspension frame too.
Do you know if anyone making trailing arm rods and coil-over-shock kits and Panhard rods for the rear?
In my mind I see removing the cart springs completely and using trailing paralelogram rods usong the forward spring mounting bolt and one fabricated above it. Using adjustable height and rate AVO (or similar)coil-over shocks. Without the springs there would be plenty of room to put a panhard rod, or a Watts linkage...and probably 40 lbs less weight with the springs not there.
Best regards
david
