Kurt,
When I replaced all the bushings and ball joints on my car, Just used a
floor jack to slowly relief pressure on the spring. I had the car on
jack stands and placed the floor jack under the lower 'A' arm and raised
the jack to put pressure on the spring. Then I removed the nut to the
lower ball joint. I used a ball joint tool (fork) to free the ball joint
from the front spindle and then I lowered the 'A' arm until the spring
came free. Make sure you remove the shock before you split the lower
ball joint. Installation was easy, just place the spring in position and
raise the lower 'A' arm into position then tighten the ball joint nut.
It worked fine! And for an added touch, I had all the parts sand blasted
then painted black. I also had all 5 wheels sandblasted and painted them
gloss black. It looks pretty good.
Sergio
still waiitng for my head from Smitty's :(
Kurt Eckert wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have started the process of rebuilding my front suspension (the first time I
> am actually putting something together instead of tearing it apart!) and have a
> couple of questions. First, Does anyone know how I can compress the coil
> springs? All of the spring compressors that I have looked at are too big to fit
> up inside of the spring through the hole in the lower link. Also, the coil
> springs have some sort of black coating on them. Is this coating going to just
> fall off as soon as I start stressing the springs? The springs were purchased
> through Victoria British so probably it's just some cheap paint but hey you
> never know. If it is just cheap paint should I remove this coating and put
> something on that can take the flexing that a spring goes through? Does anything
> like that exist?
>
> On another note, from my readings it appears that the U.N.F. and U.N.C.
> fasteners used on my Series III are compatible with standard U.S. fine and
> course threads. Is this correct?
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt Eckert
> 1963 Series III GT
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