What the hell. I just spent 2 hours trying to get out one of my front springs. No luck, even trying to use a spring compressor. I have an 03 GT and am trying to install a eibach pro kit. Any tips or helpfull links?

 

everything you need to know here

 

if you took the sway bar and spindle loose from the aframe nothing
else holds it in ? once the aframe drops you will have to pop it out
of the spring pocket , make sure you have a jack under the aframe before you take that stuff loose although

 

+1 on that how-to, exactly how i did mine

 

I took off the lower A-arm at the hinge point and it worked well. It's the Hayne's/Chilton method and you don't have to worry about your alignment being too far off (mine was still in spec, just on the edges instead of the middle).

 

do you guys really think taking off the brake caliper and dropping the strut is the easiest/best way? I just popped the ball joint and the spring comes right out. [sm=feedback.gif]

 

ya, springs can be a pita, i remember mine! oh my god, it seems that more ppl
run into CRAZY problems with springs then with anything else....except maybe headers

well good luck, and follow that write-up, i followed basicly the same one

 

i have done it both ways and really it is about the same time either way,if you have air tools its just 2 seconds to zip off the cauliper
the only thing i don't take it loose at the top as that can change your
front end alignment, i just take off the nut in the center , with air to remove the strut just for extra working room is worth it sometimes also , i have a electric impact also and that worksget also, after you have changed them a couple dozen times it becomes second nature !
only thing i see is when just one side is up it causes problems with the sway bar preloading ?