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Re: Seattle area: may I borrow your spring compression tool?

To: "Erik Quackenbush" <erik@midwestfilter.com>, "John Jacobsen-Watts" <johnw@wrq.com>, "'Triumph Digest List'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Seattle area: may I borrow your spring compression tool?
From: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:56:32 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"
References: <4.1.20000821145942.00a74d10@mail.midwestfilter.com>
And when the spring flies off at about 250 MPH it can put a hole in a wall,
think of what it can do to a head, even a very hard head, risky, very risky.
"FT"
>
> You don't need one. Per the factory shop manual all you need are some jack
> stands and a floor jack.
>
> Support the car on stands,  compress the front suspension by pumping up
> your floor jack under the spring pan, undo some bolts (this is the hard
> part unless you've had it apart sometime in the last decade), then lower
> the floor jack and it all comes apart safely. I did this very thing to my
> 74 TR-6 a couple of weeks ago.
>
> -Erik
>
> At 10:04 AM 8/21/2000 -0700, John Jacobsen-Watts wrote:
> >
> >Hey Seattle-area folks:
> >
> >You: Busy trying to figure out the current eight-game Mariners skid.
> >Me: Borrowing your TR6 suspension compression tool to rebuild the front
end
> >of my '74 TR6 so I don't have to think about the current eight-game
Mariners
> >skid.
> >
> >Can you help? Please reply directly to me, and thanks very much!
> >John
> >johnw@wrq.com
>
> --
> Erik Quackenbush, V.P. Operations, Midwest Filter Corporation
> 1-847-680-0566 fax: 1-847-680-0832 http://www.midwestfilter.com
>


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