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Front Strut - Junk Yard Shortcut - Good or Bad ? 200

posted by  yellowbrickroadster on  Mon Jul 10 03:58 CST 2006
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I want to get a set of springs and top bearings from the front struts on a 240 at my local boneyard. Both look brand new and like very recent replacements before the car was junked. I was wondering if there is a short cut to the normal procedure of using spring compressors to compress the springs before removing the top nut to disasseble the strut. For example, am I inviting disaster if I remove the top shock nut and the three smaller nuts that hold the strut to the tower whle the car is on the ground ? Then, with these removed, is it safe to jack the car up slowly and have everything free and loose for disassembly and scavenging ? Would like to save some time and effort while working out in the hot sun, but don't want to sacrifice any safety. Thanks.

Mike






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