How they tested the old ones.
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A window on a world gone by.....
Shame BMC didn't test their front suspension in the same way. If they had, the world may not have been subjected to their cars going down the road like nodding dogs when the lever arm dampers packed up after about 6 months.
Shame BMC didn't test their front suspension in the same way. If they had, the world may not have been subjected to their cars going down the road like nodding dogs when the lever arm dampers packed up after about 6 months.
Or being left stranded when the lower. Trunion sheared off.
Tony.
Tony.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about seeing Morris Minors at the side of the road with one front wheel jammed up into the wheelarch.
Bet you would wipe the dipstick on your tie eh Tony .... 
What's a tie? 
Tony.
Tony.
Not only Morris Minors, I ave changed the front upright on a Spitfire more than once. One time on the way to work, only cost me about an hour..
And regular "de cokes" too.Big end bearings lasting 20,000 miles, pleased we've moved on from that sort of spec
Tony.
Decokes. Now there's a memory. Head off, valves out, scrape the carbon off the valves and out of the ports. Oh what fun....
As a boy In the mid 70s I worked in an engine reconditioning shop for a while. Many cars (Fords, BMCs and Vauxhalls) that came in with kn*ckered engines had done less than 50 thousand miles. Improvements in engine design, materials, machining precision and lubricants have changed the life expectancy of engines beyond recognition.
Improvements in oils and fuels by far the biggest influences I would say Rob. I have many memories of de coking tractor engines as an old boy back in the early 70's.
Tony.