installing springs
2nd Gear Member
Joined: Aug 2007
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RE: installing springs
You don`t need a compressor to install the new springs, they`re so much shorter you can do it by hand.
I restrained the O.E. springs with a c-clamp and removed the nut, "jumped" a little but didn`t seem unsafe at all.
YMMV
I restrained the O.E. springs with a c-clamp and removed the nut, "jumped" a little but didn`t seem unsafe at all.
YMMV
3rd Gear Member
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 524
From: Blue Ridge Mtns, VA
RE: installing springs
I dont recommend it but what I did was backed the nut off to about half of the threads, taped the trigger down on my air gun with the socket on the nut, laid the fixture out in the grass and plugged the air hose in from about 15 ft away.
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Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 770
From: PT Pleasant NJ
RE: installing springs
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Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 638
From: CA
RE: installing springs
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I dont recommend it but what I did was backed the nut off to about half of the threads, taped the trigger down on my air gun with the socket on the nut, laid the fixture out in the grass and plugged the air hose in from about 15 ft away.
I dont recommend it but what I did was backed the nut off to about half of the threads, taped the trigger down on my air gun with the socket on the nut, laid the fixture out in the grass and plugged the air hose in from about 15 ft away.
Cut & Paste Expert
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 13,322
From: NW Arkansas
RE: installing springs
Not too bad.
Might want to consider replacing the
chuckle upper strut mount bearings for
the new chuckle free parts offered by Ford
while you have them apart.
(8R3Z-18183-A)cost $58.23 each.
Might want to consider replacing the
chuckle upper strut mount bearings for
the new chuckle free parts offered by Ford
while you have them apart.
(8R3Z-18183-A)cost $58.23 each.