What do you do with the wired-up compressed spring after you remove it from the car?
Doug Braun '72 Spit? At 03:24 PM 1/21/2005 +0000, you wrote: >Before I tell you my solution, I'll say that I strongly recommend not >following this method if you value your own life and limbs. Having said >that, here is the information, do with it what you will. > >This applied more to removing a spring from a shock, rather than fitting it, >but the method could probably be adapted. I sat the car on axle stands, >then used a jack under the suspension to compress the spring. I tied a >number of winds of strong baler twine around the compressed spring, before >releasing the jack. After a bit of movement to load up the baler twine, the >spring remained compressed. > >If you could find something really solid against which you could brace the >spring while compressing it with a jack, this might work. But there's a >scary amount of energy stored in that compressed spring, so this is really >not a health-and-safety approved method! > >Richard Gosling *** http://www.team.net/the-local *** Your messages not reaching the list? Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html *** unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try *** http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool *** http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo *** Archives at http://www.team.net/archive *** Edit your replies!
