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Front coil spring replacement, and a question about a tool. 140-160 1972

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posted by  matt b on  Tue Apr 14 01:01 CST 2009
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If you don't look out you are REALLY GOING TO HURT YOURSELF!!

A couple things I do...

1) Leave the shock absorber in there, bolted in at the top. That'll keep the spring from flying too far. I suppose there's risk of damaging the shock, but that's a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to replace than yourself.

2) Leave that ball joint nut threaded atop the ball joint... just loosen it so you can pop the taper. If the bolt doesn't turn easily, you'll probably have problems taking it off the rest of the way, as the whole joint will spin. So make sure that nut turns easily on it's threads.

3) Use a pickle fork tool to pop the ball joint taper. Yea.. you'll probably damage the rubber boot. But using the pickle fork keeps your hands farther away from all that stored energy in the spring.

Be safe and think about exactly what's going on before you get your hands anywhere near things.




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-Matt I ♥ my ♂






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