Nodge68
Well-Known Member
The answer is DON'T!! it's only safe to use a proper spring compressor. If you try some other item, there is a real chance that you could cause serious injury to you are someone else. I've see what happens when it all goes wrong, it isn't pleasant!!
Buy the correct tools, sell them on when you are finished
Buy the correct tools, sell them on when you are finished
bushwwacker
Well-Known Member
The answer is DON'T!! it's only safe to use a proper spring compressor. If you try some other item, there is a real chance that you could cause serious injury to you are someone else. I've see what happens when it all goes wrong, it isn't pleasant!!
Buy the correct tools, sell them on when you are finished
+1
£30 From machine mart.
I was using two (cos I couldn't be arsed puttingthe third one on) to change a spring on the disco. One of them slipped round under compression and the spring belted me on the top of the foot (I was sat cross legged) - it felt like a horse han stamped on it (had that before ).
Either way, the spring was banana shaped, still under compression.
I dread to think what it'd have done to my gonads or face if it had gone t'other way.
Spend £30
I need to replace the top mount bearing
Nodge68
Well-Known Member
bushwwacker
Well-Known Member
Even better
Optimus Prime
Well-Known Member
or use the ratchet straps but make sure you film it while you do it so we can all laugh when it goes wrong
scotty281976
Active Member
don't even try ffs it will end in tears, its not even 100% safe with the proper tools, I had a proper clamp let go on me once and the spring hit me on the forehead and split my head open, even then I felt lucky people have been known to get killed
That's another good thing about e-bay - you can buy tools you only need once in the knowledge that you can pretty much get back what you paid for them. I actually made a £10 profit on a hydrolastic suspension pump when rebuilding my MGF.
But as everyone else has said, don't try with ratchet straps, if they let go (especially in a confined space like a wheel arch) what might happen is anyone's guess.
But as everyone else has said, don't try with ratchet straps, if they let go (especially in a confined space like a wheel arch) what might happen is anyone's guess.
Northern Irelander
Well-Known Member
I'm all for Health & Safety first, but sometimes you gotta think outside the box.
It's not the tensioning with straps, it's the releasing of the rachet which is the dangerous part
How to compress a coil spring with ratchet straps - YouTube
It's not the tensioning with straps, it's the releasing of the rachet which is the dangerous part
How to compress a coil spring with ratchet straps - YouTube
