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Yes Adam the upper is the main and the lower is the rebound spring. this lower spring does two things, it damps the return of the hub after the upper spring has been compressed and if you go over a pot hole.... or leave the ground for any reason! then it suppresses the upper spring tension from thumping the hub downwards.

Just a further observation re oiler system or grease nipple. There has been a lot of people, less now as most pins have been replaced, who have removed the oiler system from older cars and replaced the oiler bolt or even just fitted a grease nipple into the top of the pin as they found it too messy a system. Well, the old pins designed for oilers had a very narrow gantry way for the oil to travel through and you cannot successfully push grease through it. If you do wish to make this change using old pins then you can push oil through a nipple using a quality grease gun that will accept oil. Use a thick oil though like EP 80 and sparingly! The old oiler system was ok but was often used to heavily and too often and that could cause quite a mess. There were lots of theories back in the day but the best I thought was to use it on start up when the engine oil was cold and for just 3 seconds. The family had an old 4-4 in the 70's and my dad seemed to have it sorted although I did seem to clean it all up on a regular basis. He fitted sleeved nipples at some time while I was away in the Army as something went drastically wrong with the system and it was a lot cleaner after that.