Me too. I think I told the story on here.
I'd never use the single hook type again, and rather than buy a different set would nip to a local garage and do it in their far safer contained device.
Me too. I think I told the story on here.
I'd never use the single hook type again, and rather than buy a different set would nip to a local garage and do it in their far safer contained device.
Magicgrotto
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@Discoslow step bi step !
undo wheel nuts ! jack under axle ! get wheel off ! axle stand under chassis (wheels wood owt to hold motor up in air SAFE !) undo bottom shock nut ! undo top nut if your changing shocks ! jack between axle & bump stop if its still there & jack away job done !!
the trouble with spring comp's is you more than likely get the in the WRONG place OR nacker the threads up on them ! or when taking them off have a NEAR miss with your HEAD !
undo wheel nuts ! jack under axle ! get wheel off ! axle stand under chassis (wheels wood owt to hold motor up in air SAFE !) undo bottom shock nut ! undo top nut if your changing shocks ! jack between axle & bump stop if its still there & jack away job done !!
the trouble with spring comp's is you more than likely get the in the WRONG place OR nacker the threads up on them ! or when taking them off have a NEAR miss with your HEAD !
Magicgrotto
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IF you have HARD standing or a drive + a TROLLY jack it makes life easy
Marmaduke
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Go and try it now, I'll wait twenty minutes and call you an ambulance just in case
@Discoslow step bi step !
undo wheel nuts ! jack under axle ! get wheel off ! axle stand under chassis (wheels wood owt to hold motor up in air SAFE !) undo bottom shock nut ! undo top nut if your changing shocks ! jack between axle & bump stop if its still there & jack away job done !!
the trouble with spring comp's is you more than likely get the in the WRONG place OR nacker the threads up on them ! or when taking them off have a NEAR miss with your HEAD !
this reminds me of my dad, he’s nearly 90 and worked in mechanics all his life and told me how he changed coils, two people and some angle iron , he did say there were many times when it got abit lively trying to change them, was a case of having to then , lol
personally always used spring compressors myself as i fancied keeping my head,
Discoslow
Active Member
Go and try it now, I'll wait twenty minutes and call you an ambulance just in case
Ha ha! They'll turn up and find my head where the turret should be and the spring up my ar*e.
Will have a think before I try anything stupid.
Go and try it now, I'll wait twenty minutes and call you an ambulance just in case
can’t even bear the thought of someone trying without compressors ,
Marmaduke
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That's OK, maybe that'll give you a hand to sort. My ex mother in law used to ring the ambulance and when they came out she'd try to get them to take her to the shops for booze and cigarettes
Discoslow
Active Member
All sorted. @Disco1BFG has kindly offered to lend me some spring compressors.
Marmaduke
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Now, if he'll just drop them off at your house and show you how they work a couple of times...........
The issue for me is a spring compressor is tightening a coiled spring, a feckin powerful spring ... and I've seen them go.
Jacking the axle apart means the spring just drops out ... There's nothing properly under tension that has a chance to 'explode' out, the axle is but to nowhere near the extent of a coil spring. And he'll still have to undo the shock, and maybe remove the wheel etc .. unless he also removes it from the top with the turret etc etc ..
Jacking the axle apart means the spring just drops out ... There's nothing properly under tension that has a chance to 'explode' out, the axle is but to nowhere near the extent of a coil spring. And he'll still have to undo the shock, and maybe remove the wheel etc .. unless he also removes it from the top with the turret etc etc ..
can’t even bear the thought of someone trying without compressors ,
You wuss
- I reckon it's easier to let the axle drop having undone the shockers, and probably safer too - exactly as Paul D says:- From what he has said, the shocks are undone - and the reason for the job...maybe
Now, if he'll just drop them off at your house and show you how they work a couple of times...........
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Shall I take me welderiser too ,.... Actually, I have offered to help if he wants... ( I.E. if he wants some cantankerous old git turning up drinking his tea )
brianp38dse
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I tried that method on my sons polo as I couldn't find my compressors and the bloody things just kept slipping down the springs, I only managed it after I borrowed the compressors back of my brother
no wonder I couldn't find umm.
bluedog333
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A combination of the two would have made it a piece of p*ss to do?
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bluedog333
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Good to know!
