Front spring

Spent the afternoon working on the front spring. With these old leafs it’s pretty common for them to get painted as one piece. It happened with this one. When painted together it sticks the leaves together and the spring becomes for all intensive purposes one sold bar of metal loosing its spring. This one also had quite a bit of rust between the leafs making them stick. The solution is drilling out the pin that holds the assembly together and separate the leafs. Then you can clean them up paint them individually and reassemble with a layer of grease between them. So I started that procedure today. Got the leafs apart and started the cleanup.