All the leaves were brown.

This is actually a post covering yesterday and a bit of today, during which time I tackled the leaf springs. A filthy, repetitive job that is quite rewarding when finished.

I had already taken the springs apart and the front pair were dry. I pulled out my mains powered angle grinder and set to with a knot wire cup brush, followed by a 40 grit flap disc. The bushing started to reveal some of the original features. As I went though black, yellow and black paint.

It took about two flap discs per spring to get them smooth to the touch. They are not perfect but will certainly slip better when reassembled with graphite grease.

The rear springs had been stripped and greased in 2018 for the sum of £215. They were therefore wet, sticky and generally unpleasant to deal with. I scraped the worst of and then gave a brush down with degreaser before start on the wore brushing.

The rear are quite a bit longer than the fronts and so I ran out of time to finish all four. I left three done and one to knock off quickly the next day.

Today I cracked on with the last spring, thinking it would be done fairly quickly and I could get on with some other bits. It wasn’t quite so easy.

My mains grinder decided it was time to go mid way through wire brushing the last spring. It stopped suddenly and then after sitting for a few moments started smoking. I decided it was beyond repair – it was a cheap Bosch green number that has done in a fair few years of hard graft. I trip to my local Screwfix got me back to work (I was not going to use my battery powered grinder for this).

Eventually I was done and all four springs sat resplendent together ready to be regressed and then painted.

They will need bushes and new dowels to complete them but this is a good job done.