need help installing stock springs
08-19-2012, 11:12 PM
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need help installing stock springs
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
08-20-2012, 08:06 AM
#3
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.
08-20-2012, 08:57 AM
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08-20-2012, 09:57 AM
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08-20-2012, 01:16 PM
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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...
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...
Last edited by cliffyk; 08-20-2012 at 01:20 PM.
08-20-2012, 02:05 PM
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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'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.