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Quite innovative if you ask me and I'll file it in my "get you home bodges" file. The smugness of the jobsworth comments as if he'd saved the whole of Dover and the South East from certain catastrophe would be quite amusing if it wasn't so irritating.
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> Didn't Leyland do something similar with the mini rear suspension
Front and rear, the Moulton rubber lumps. One reason I have a bit of sympathy is that I was once the very impecunious owner of a Wolseley Hornet that had its collapsed hydrolastic suspenders replaced with the rubber lumps and trumpets. There were no dampers of course, but it didn't really hamper things except for needing to replace all four Conway remoulds every 600 miles or so (£3 each I think).
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Maybe I am approaching this with the wrong attitude, but my first thought on seeing the photo was "Genius!"
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Many years ago, I bought a Standard ten. It wasn't until I got it MOT'd many months later that I found the broken off part of one front spring had been replaced with what looked like a cut-off section of beautifully polished, turned piano leg.
I was so impressed with the guy's ingenuity, I didn't have the heart to go back and shout at him. Cavea umpa lumpa as bb would say. ;>)
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Conway remoulds...my goodness yes I remember them now. Best not to go over 50 they used to say....did we listen....nah!
I don't expect you can get remoulds now can you?
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 20/09/2009 at 01:16
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Colway remoulds...brilliant off road tyres, the old RR csk would go anywhere, anyone thats been to the devils pit will know the hills i'm referring to.
Edit. if you have a W210 MB and the front spring support breaks off as they are prone to do, using a old MB prop shaft rubber coupling as a spring spacer will get you home.
Edited by gordonbennet on 19/09/2009 at 22:55
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Quite right - Colway, not my misremembered Conway.
I have a CSK reg no., I keep thinking I need a classic RR to go with it...
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A complete and utter yoyo brain, tennis balls !
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There used to be a product, called autoballans IIRC, that consisted of an inflatable ball inserted in the spring as an assister for towing.
Some people tried tennis balls as a cheaper alternative.
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I remember reading a get-you-home bodge for for a broken cart spring was to wedge a branch of a tree between the spring hangers.
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...Quite right - Colway, not my misremembered Conway...
Colway Grippers - cheap, round (mostly), and black, but very little else.
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Colway remoulds were a well respected tyre by the trials brigade.
IIRC they were the only tyre permitted in certain classes for rallies.
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Quite popular in the rallying world at club level too, IIRC
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