At 08:28 PM 1/10/02 -0800, Chris Sharp wrote:
>Anyway, here's how I did it:
>- Placed the car on 4 jack stands. This takes the car off the suspension so
>that it's stable.
>- Remove the front tires, disconnect the sway bar & tie-rods, and remove the
>brake calipers & rotors. At this point you should have the front suspension
>stripped down to A-arms, knuckle, spring & shock.
>- Place a hydraulic floor jack under the lower knuckle and lift it just
>until the tension is off of the shock.
>- Unbolt the top end of the shock. I just removed the center nut as the
>smaller nuts hold the top spring perch in place.
>- *CAREFULLY* lower the jack. The top spring perch should hold the top of
>the spring in place, the perch welded to the shock should hold the lower end
>of the spring. Bottom of the shock is still attached to the lower A-arm. I
>found that when the spring was fully extended, it was loose in the perches.
>If this hadn't been the case, my plan was to jack it back up, bolt it back
>together and get a spring compressor. Recall "rule #1".
>- Unbolt the bottom end of the shock and the spring is out.
This only works if the chassis still has enough weight on it (engine, body
tub, etc) to compress the spring. If you are working with a bare chassis,
then a compressor is the only way to go.
-Vegaman Dan
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