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Willcox Corvette has a post that shows how to use threaded rod to make a compression tool for you front coil springs. I've used it quite a few times. It works great!
Willcox Corvette has a post that shows how to use threaded rod to make a compression tool for you front coil springs. I've used it quite a few times. It works great!
Bob k.
This is the best way. I use it all the time. Threaded rod goes up thru shock hole and is very safe.
I must be the only guy that takes the arm off the frame to remove the springs
(Of course that didn't work when I had the engine out so I made a plate and used a threaded rod as well....)
M
I tipped the arm all the way down...compressed it, shoved it in, put the ball joint in loosely 'clocked the spring' into it's ORIGINAL observed position by using my actual eyes. 'Twas easy.
I used a threaded rod, a little sketchy and not my best moment but it worked, and then I pulled them out again and installed a set of adjustable coil overs.
I disconnect the lower arm at the rod / frame connection with the ball-joint still connected,
but when I went to put it back on last time, then engine wasn't in place so it would just lift the car so I made a plate that bolted into the lower shock holes and a length of threaded rod through the shock top and hole and pulled the arm up with the spring using a set of drifts to align the rod to the frame holes
I find the internal spring compressor method a PIA for me so this worked out better, for me anyway. Still prefer removing it from the frame rather than the ball joint though. Going to lower the front an inch or so this year so I'll be pulling them yet again in a few months
M
