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Originally Posted by Mark IV
With that leaf spring wrapped in the nastiest stuff known to man! I had the last N.O.S. leaf spring from AC when Autokraft took over all of the spares and the stuff that the spring is wrapped in gets all over everything! I have never seen such insidious, creeping black gunk in my life! 
That is one thing we did NOT replicate with the Superformance MK II cars! |
Well, it keeps water out and lubricant in. Leafsprings can wear quite quickly with grit and water between the leaves.
I wrapped mine with the original materials. First the spring is coated with a thick covering of OGL (Outside Gear Lubricant) grease, same stuff they use on truck fifth wheels. Then it is tightly wrapped with Denso tape, a cloth-based sticky tape, still available exactly as AC used it. Several other more upmarket manufacturers used it, too - Bentley, Rolls Royce etc. It is wrapped so that it can be held in place by just one metal strap fastener. Yes, it's not nice, but...
Roger