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Re: spring compressors - hint

To: sgi!alpine.b17a.ingr.com!tj@pei.pei.com
Subject: Re: spring compressors - hint
From: rgb@hal.com (Roger Bolick)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 22:27:39 CDT
>was stable.  I removed the wheel and shock damper, and then placed a
>jacl under the lower A-arm.  I raised the jack to slightly compress
>the spring and firmly support the A-arm and then carefully undid the 4
>nuts that hold the spring base to the A-arm, uh, arms.

Put a long screwdriver dropped in from the top through 2-3 of the
bolt holes to keep the whole thing lined up upon decompression and
recompression.  You may have to loosen the A-arm->frame bolts to
get it back together, make sure the back 2 studs are deep in the A-arm
before you reassemble.

Roger



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