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Re: front springs

To: Geoff Branch <gjbranch@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: front springs
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:30:53 -0400
Cc: Spidgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Organization: New Jersey's Governer SUCKS
References: <000801c34a76$c49066a0$0200a8c0@upstairs>
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Geoff Branch wrote:
> Wahllll, being a longtime proponent of the long bolt method of front spring
> removal, and noticing that I have been in the minority, this time I decided to
> use the jack method.  And I have to recommend it.  Just put a small floor jack
> under the A-arm and jacked it up; removed the four bolts; and lowered the
> jack, removing the spring from underneath, through the A-arm.  Slick, and not
> dangerous at all.  Installation was the reverse of the removal.  Not dangerous
> at all and slick.


No jack, no bolts to undo. Just drop the A arm from the trunion nut, pop 
it out. To install, just kick it back in.
Right larry? He saw this done in the parking lot of SS03 to his own car.
I just did it to my bew project.




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Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
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