long story short im selling my mustang to buy another one. I switched out my rear springs no problem and pulled out my front H&R springs but now i have to re install my stock springs in the front but no matter how much i try to muscle them in they just wont fit, not even without isolators. does anybody know a trick to get them in? the calipers and struts are disconected

 

Did you disconnect the stabilizer links?

 

Disconnect sway bar, disconnect shocks, disconnect quadshocks, disconnect caliper, jackstands under torque boxes, jack under rear, lower untill spring slides in, with stock springs a compresssor may be necessary.

 

It's the front he is having trouble with...

 

Good ole monday mornings, put jack under a arm, disconnect tie rod end and strut, use spring compressor, insert spring, jack up on a-arm, reconnect tie rod and strut bolts.

 

^+1, caught me too--I forgot about the tie-rods...

 

and i forgot the sway bar end links, gonna be a rough week.

 

Look at the bright side, it has to get better.

I think when you have done this crap as much as we have there are a whole bunch of things to be done that we do not even think about. I wrote a quick "How to pull the tranny" list for a friend and left out 4 or 5 "steps" that I probably would not have remembered doing if I had just got done pulling one out...

 

You will need a spring compressor to get stock springs back in.

I've tried without and it does not work, also I think that it is 100% easier to use the type of spring compressor meant for macpherson/coil over shock style springs as the holes in the bottom of the control arms is not large enough to accomodate the conventional spring compressor.

However if you cut a coil from the front they go back in easy as cake, and you get to lower the car...haha.

 

I use tradition coil compressor, the profesional product one fits through the a arm on the bottom, I can't stand mcpherson compressors there a massieve PITA.