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Old 21-01-14, 10:07 AM
GOFFJASON GOFFJASON is offline
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Kevin, I will check through the drawings and parts lists in Resources and if I have any additional to add I will scan and post.

From memory, everything I requested of Bristol was available as at October last year. As I mentioned, I machined new lower spring seats out of nylon, as the original steel ones had the shock absorber mounting bracket bolts, corroded into them. They also seemed to be ridiculously heavy for what they were doing. Of your parts shown, I only replaced the soft rubber top pad and the urethane lower pad that was being held firmly by the corroded fixings. The angled top spacer was in good condition.

In regard turret nuts, my inner wishbone fixings were all of the self locking type nut. The turret nuts were on the top and bottom suspension joints and steering. All the turret nuts had split pins solidly corroded into them and I gave up breaking drill bits trying to drill them out (despite having sourced replacement nuts from my local engineering fixing supplier). I made the decision at that point to switch to replacement Nylock nuts.

I think the only part that was unavailable from Bristol were spring retainers for the suspension joint service kits. The only other part I found unavailable, was a local source of brake disc rotors. This was confirmed by Bristol, who supplied a set that had obviously been machined from another model disc (good quality AP Racing!).

I trust this is of some help. Jason
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