Michael Richard's Journal

OK so here I go again. Time to start on the second iteration of my build. Hopefully with a lot more planning forethought, and common sense. But I learned a lot in the offing.These springs will make up the new quarter elliptical front end. I got them when I was in a local machine shop. They were just laying there covered in crap and dust. I asked them about these and they said it was from a buggy they were helping restore for a customer and he never came back and picked them up. So after laying there waiting on me for about five years, I asked if they would sell them and the nice lady replied sure, how does $5.00 each sound? Well it sounded just dandy and I threw them in the truck before someone changed their mind. So I have three, and have compared them and chose the two that matched the closest. I pulled together the first mount plate pair and dressed them up. They have a somewhat weird size end loop, but a 1/4 brass pipe fitting will fit handsomely with just a bit of sanding. So once again. Here I go. I don't consider the first frame and front end a failure. More like a training kart.