Reply To: Metal Spring Covers

[Michael Sulpizio]

William & Peggy : I just did this procedure this last year the whole job is tedious to sa te least! Rudy Rosales fabricates the metal spring covers as well as the leather ones.I believe the cost ,quality he uses the right zink coated metal. All you have to do is take and transfer a few measurement on to a sheet of paper of a drawing of a front and rear pring and give him as much information as possible such as how many segments they put on from the factory he will fabricate and send you what you need.As for the cloth covering you are all right it s Duck Canvas you can fin this on line by googling the material. Onece you get the material make a paper patern of each spring from eye to the axle lengthwise so that when you lay the canvas over the greased spring it fits over the sprin like a sock cut the material wide enough so that you can overlap it at the bottom of the sprig using enough grease so that as you wrap the canvas around the spring lengthwise it becomes a sock it’s messy but use lots of grease! Then install your cover segments so that they overlap just as Rudy sends them to you! Rudy sends a piece of matching zink channel with each set of segments that match the detentions of that set of segments this piece slips over the bottom of the segments and locks in each segment as you work it back toward the eye or the center of the axle , witch ever end is easiest to start the channel from.Once tis is all done using a flatt body hammer work your way along the channel and peen both edges down flat ,clean all the grease off and your ready for paint.