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Re: [T3] Oil pressure relief springs




scott a keck wrote:

> >I stretched the springs to make them stiffer (yes it works)
>
> Um, I thought that the springs would have to be shimmed to make them
> "stiffer"...  Stretching the spring would just weaken it at the specific
> coils that were stretched.

The spring would be weakened if it would be pushed and pulled continously.
Just by stretching them increases the pre-load, it takes more effort to put
them back in place, thus they are stiffer.

PerL
73 Wagon

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