>Maybe it's a chrome bumper/rubber bumper thing, but I found that on
>my '72, placing a jack under the spring pan does nothing but lift
>that corner of the car off the ground. The spring hardly compresses
>at all. To finish the job last time, I had to borrow a 235-pound man
>from an adjacent stall and ask him to sit on my fender while I jacked
>under the spring pan. Without the added weight, all of the parts of
>the car just moved upwards atthe same time, with no relative motion
>between them. Only with the added weight could I get the spring pan
>to move up with the body staying still.
>Scott
That's pretty interesting cuz on my '69 B, a floor jack under the spring pan
was able to compress the old/new/left/right springs really easily, *without*
a 235-lb man! :-) I would guess that maybe some of your suspension
components were nearly seized, or the floor jack was placed too close to the
pan's axis of rotation?
-Felix
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