No fooling you is there PB! Yes I remember the wee spring. You shimmed them up with the spring removed and then dismantled, installed the spring and put it back together again. If you forgot to install the spring it only took a very small amount of wear for the joint to start producing a very annoying knocking noise over road irregularities. The more I think about it the more I have the feeling the spring was only in the bottom joint? but I may well be wrong. I think I've still got an Allegro manual somewhere, must check up on it.I saw it in the earlier pictures. I think it is the seat for the upper and lower swivel ball joints. Used to have to buy all the bits separately, until they at last made a kit. Used to have a little stiff spring under it, that could also be used in the ends of the steering racks on Mini, 11/1300, Maxi, Allegro and Marina. Glad they were still avialable separately when the ones in my Marina rack broke. Cheap repair instead of a complete rack.
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Edit. Aha! just clicked on your link to that Rimmer kit and I see it only includes one of the wee springs. That would seem to confirm my memory that only the bottom joint had the spring in it. Logical I suppose, as the Moulton rubber/hydrolastic/hydragas suspension units acted on the top arm which would keep the top joint loaded up most of the time whereas the lower joint was at the end of the lower arm so not under any compressive forces so would be liable to "rattle".
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