Broken spring

[Brent Meints]

I completely understand that, I am gathering quotes right now actually to
finally get a barn built to properly house my parts and NX. Once I have
space I will be on the hunt again for another project, but until then
nothing is getting done on my NX.

Brent

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:30 PM David Pertuz <d.pertuz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I drive my cars pretty regularly these days but 8 years sitting in
> the garage weren't the best for my SE-R. All because I thought it needed
> rod bearings, which I was obviously in no hurry for, when all the time it
> didn't. It went back on the road in 2016 and has been driven about 1000
> miles a year since then. I'm back to having good not-driving options for
> getting to work (thank God), but for the year and a half when driving was a
> huge time-saver, I alternated between the SE-R and my Accord for commuting.
>
> For sure I'm replacing both - I'll give Greg a call first.
>
> as much as I love, love, love owning and driving this car, my
> garage-to-car mismatch, number of cars, driving habits and the needs of
> this one are starting to make me wonder whether I'd ultimately be happier
> passing it on. Shocked that I'm even thinking that! If I had a free garage
> space for it I'd just park it there and slowly work on it with no rush.
>
> David
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 1:55 PM Brent Meints <brent.meints at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Trick is to drive them frequently, any car that sits is a car that self
>> destructs. Tough go on the spring, but you should be able to order from
>> about anywhere. I would replace both though at the same time as the new
>> spring won't have years of settling on it like the original spring.
>>
>> Brent
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 1:02 PM David Pertuz <d.pertuz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Went to move my car for street cleaning the other day, let out the
>>> clutch and....BANG!! from the front end. Whatever that was, it sure
>>> released a lot of energy, I thought. Had a pretty good idea, so yesterday I
>>> shone a flashlight under there and, yes - my left front coil spring broke,
>>> just off of the flattened coil at the top.
>>>
>>> Where does one even get stock springs?
>>>
>>> And last week, for the first time in its 27 years, it's hard to start -
>>> cranks for about five or six seconds before slowly catching, and a burst of
>>> smoke from the exhaust. It's obviously a fuel-supply issue. Sigh.
>>>
>>> My poor car needs a long layup in a garage space that I currently don't
>>> have for it, so I can give it a complete suspension/front end rebuild and
>>> take care of the dozen other small things I've never gotten to.
>>>
>>> David
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>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Brent Meints
>>
>>
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Brent Meints
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