What do you do with the wired-up compressed spring after you remove it from the
car?
Doug Braun
'72 Spit?
At 03:24 PM 1/21/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Before I tell you my solution, I'll say that I strongly recommend not
>following this method if you value your own life and limbs. Having said
>that, here is the information, do with it what you will.
>
>This applied more to removing a spring from a shock, rather than fitting it,
>but the method could probably be adapted. I sat the car on axle stands,
>then used a jack under the suspension to compress the spring. I tied a
>number of winds of strong baler twine around the compressed spring, before
>releasing the jack. After a bit of movement to load up the baler twine, the
>spring remained compressed.
>
>If you could find something really solid against which you could brace the
>spring while compressing it with a jack, this might work. But there's a
>scary amount of energy stored in that compressed spring, so this is really
>not a health-and-safety approved method!
>
>Richard Gosling
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