Assembly guide for vehicle spring and method

Details Assembly guide for vehicle spring and method Assembly guide for vehicle spring and method

2007-08-30

2011-12-06

Schwartz, Christopher (Department: 3657)

Spring devices

Vehicle

Mechanical spring and nonresilient retarder

Reexamination Certificate

active

08070144

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle spring guide assembly is shown for mounting a coil spring to a suspension component of a vehicle. The assembly can include a vehicle mounting member and a spring guide member. The vehicle mounting member includes a bumper portion and a mounting interface portion. The mounting interface portion can be configured to engage the bumper portion and fixedly mount the bumper portion to a suspension component of a vehicle. The spring guide member can include an annular portion configured to engage with one end of a coil spring and a flexible frustoconical portion configured to extend within the inside diameter of the coil spring. The flexible frustoconical portion can be detachably engaged with the mounting interface portion of the vehicle mounting member, and can be configured to guide and isolate the coil spring during assembly.

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