Changing shocks

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

The set of spring compressors I bought last year were really cheap and
they did the work.

I seem to remember like 16 bucks for the pair and they had a 1/2 drive
on the end in addition to a 7/8's or so nut to crank it down with.
THE HARD part that I wish I had a compressor for was getting the damn
nut loose.  Other than that, I installed those in half a day working
by myself at an easy pace.  I swapped the entire units over to the 87
in about an hour or so.

HTH, seems to be dead and sufficently kicked at this point.
Chris

On 3/26/07, Camron D. Crouse <camron@worldaccessnet.com> wrote:
> Allyn wrote:
> >> Last weekend it took two people to reassemble a front strut.
> >> This was with H & R springs which have a much shorter free
> >> length than stock springs and can actually be done without a
> >> spring compressor. One person (me) to apply his gross
> >> tonnage, the other to center the shock shaft and get the nut started.
> >> Please can we just skip the sexual innuendo of the above?
> >> There was more than enough of that last weekend!
> >
> > This can be a one person job if you compress the spring with the strut back on the car, and a floor jack under the ball joint.  The
> > jack/car applies the gross tonnage for you.
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
>
> I was just about to wonder aloud about this method; two years ago I
> borrowed a spring compressor from the guy at the local euro-FLAPS, but
> while performing the strut/spring change (to Bilstein sports/HR Sports)
> I  wondered why I couldn't just use the big jack to lift the car, then
> my little jack to lift the A-arm to compress the spring, then R&R.
>
>
> - Camron from Vancouver, WA USA
>    '86.5 Black 16V 2.0L
>
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