But I also know that losing a damper, front or rear makes no significant difference to the feel.
CORRECT!! Morgan trad front ends are deeply prejudiced by insufficient maintenance or an inaccurate choice of damper travel placement. We are only talking of 1.25" of travel (though that can be increased): Actually, Peter Morgan confided that he only added dampers to please his fretting market.
Just one codicil. Over the years since its design, the MMC rebound spring grew in length because of an ignorance of its use, until they became an unhelpful factor in front, producing unwanted stiffness at the stub axle which Peter Ballard understood immediately. However, I began cutting my rebounds in the mid-1990s on the advice of JHS2. Bill Beck, the Works Service and then Development Director, told me over a bottle of wine, that the Works removed the rebounds for Hill Climb competition. It was a costless experiment, that became my a standard on all my mogs.
Years ago, on eMog, I advised Bill Button to remove his rebounds entirely, just to show him that he was over-fretting about bush materiel, rebounds, spring rates. He was shocked to find that his front end improved and his old mog became more neutral at the steering wheel,
which is the primary task of the Morgan FRONT suspension. The front also, though not intended, preloads the rear suspension through the flexing chassis. That is where comfort happens (or does not
).
No harm done to Button. He merely moved on to fret about another area of his Morgans. 
He and I would talk regularly until his fatal sports car accident two weeks shy of his 90th birthday. I miss him. he had the enthusiasm and drive of a teenager.
Sadly, Suplex will not sell their rebounds only or, at least, not to me. That being said, the rebounds are not supposed to be in play except
in extremis. I cut them merely until they don't rattle around, barely touching the underside of my stub axles. One day I will replace them with common sense squishable neoprene ones. But it hard to get around to areas that works so well.
The only conclusion to come to is that each trad responds to [
b]individualized[/b] tweaking..like DaveW and I do. It is due to the flexing chassis. Very rarely can you find two trad chassis the same, either when installed at the Factory or after it has seen road time. So though we can learn from each other and trad to trad, there is no one-size fits all. The original set up, functioning precisely as it was originally meant to, is quite wonderful. What I do like about the aftermarket add-ons, is that they force long-needed proper maintenance as a consequence of their installation, to finally be done and that benefit continues even after the lot is removed. This is at the core of the justified claims of joy after the work is done and the money spent. I applaud that. Focusing on products rather than tweaks is a less happy path. 99% of us are vulnerable to the immutable Law of expenditure.
"The likelihood of a car enthusiast reviewing anything he has already purchased with passionate
approval is directly related to how much money he spent on it.".
Button was rare as he would have none of that. Us boys and our toys!
gmg
