I use a similar technique and have found that disconnecting the
trunnion/vertical link assembly from the lower A arms gives a couple of
more inches play downward, which helps reduce the tension on the spring,
too.
Rob
At 07:37 PM 1/26/2002, Sally or Dick Taylor wrote:
>Keith----I know it is written to use a (road) spring compressor to
>unload the front springs, when it is necessary to relax the tension
>stored here. I will only say that this can be done without such a
>compressor when doing the following:
>
>(After removing the front damper)
>Cut a block of 2"x4" to fit just INside the four bolts and nuts that
>protrude from the bottom of the lower spring pan. Use a bottle-type jack
>and center it in the block of the 2x4. Raise the jack enough to see that
>the road spring has started to compress. You can now start taking off
>the nuts that are holding the spring pan against the spring. Leave the
>two inside studs in place, but lower the nuts way down. At some point
>you will see that lowering of the bottle jack will free the spring from
>tension, and can then be removed. Re-installation can be done by
>reversing this proceedure. Works for me!
>
>If this seems more than you're willing to chance, then by all means wait
>for the compressor.
>
>Dick
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