Hey guys,
Well, I was putting eibach pro kits on my car and this happen. We were compressing the stock springs, once we compressed it fully, I took it out of the stock shock and was decompressing it when one of the spring compressor slided over to the other side. At this point the spring is only compressed on 1 side by 2 compressors. My friend and I were trying to loosen up one side in other to slide it back then compress both side evenly again when the spring sprung out and hit two of my fingers...trust me it hurts like no other!
Anyhow, I'm trying to think of another alternative to lower the rear without using a compressor (yeah I know its bad) but if it's safer I might want to do it.
I heard this and was thinking if it would work.
Loosen all 3 bolts from the top of the rear shocks
Jack up the car
Spring uncompress themselves from the car being jacked up
Remove the last two bolts frm the suspension
Remove rear shocks/springs assembly
I already know using spring compressors is the best way but to be this other alternative sounds a bit safer since I wont have to even touch the spring when it's compressing therefore lessen the risk of injury. Let me know if you guys think this is a bad idea or not. I'm not trying to find short cuts, I'm jsut afraid to use spring compressors again
...and trust me if you had a spring that was holding your 2700 bls car pounding into your fingers you'd feel the same way.
Well, I was putting eibach pro kits on my car and this happen. We were compressing the stock springs, once we compressed it fully, I took it out of the stock shock and was decompressing it when one of the spring compressor slided over to the other side. At this point the spring is only compressed on 1 side by 2 compressors. My friend and I were trying to loosen up one side in other to slide it back then compress both side evenly again when the spring sprung out and hit two of my fingers...trust me it hurts like no other!
Anyhow, I'm trying to think of another alternative to lower the rear without using a compressor (yeah I know its bad) but if it's safer I might want to do it.
I heard this and was thinking if it would work.
Loosen all 3 bolts from the top of the rear shocks
Jack up the car
Spring uncompress themselves from the car being jacked up
Remove the last two bolts frm the suspension
Remove rear shocks/springs assembly
I already know using spring compressors is the best way but to be this other alternative sounds a bit safer since I wont have to even touch the spring when it's compressing therefore lessen the risk of injury. Let me know if you guys think this is a bad idea or not. I'm not trying to find short cuts, I'm jsut afraid to use spring compressors again
...and trust me if you had a spring that was holding your 2700 bls car pounding into your fingers you'd feel the same way.