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Re: Questions about Replacing Springs DIY
Posted by turbocon86 (more from turbocon86) on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:08:47
In Reply to: Questions about Replacing Springs DIY, PeterH, Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:46:28
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The Harbour Freight compressors will work but it's harder with them. There isn't much room in the wheel well to get the pair of them (per spring) situated properly and still be able to wrench them. You can do it with some persistance, I have. The thing you don't want to do is just compress one side of the spring with a single coil-gripping style compressor. That's a very dangerous situation. You should see if you can rent a spring compressor somewhere. You want the style with the single adjustment bolt and "plates" that hold the spring.
I've found it's easiest to pull the wheel off, then jack up the lower a-arm to compress the spring. Then mount the spring compressor on the spring SECURELY and slowly lower the jack. You will still need to compress the spring more with the compressor tool, but this will give you a head start and make things a little easier.
Rear springs don't need to be compressed. Just be careful when you're lowering the rear axel that you don't stress the flexible rear brake lines.
Compressing springs on a garage floor with compressors and hand tools can be done pretty easily
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