I got this covered!
- Thread starter circlepilot
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Those who don't know GM coil springs have to wonder WTF is he trying to do?
3 cheers for torsion bars.
3 cheers for torsion bars.
I have no idea he w to use one of those.
I’ll stick with the T bars cars, thanks!
I’ll stick with the T bars cars, thanks!
65wgn440
Well-Known Member
Ha-ha ! That brings back some memories ! When I was young, we used to take a front tire off my Mom's '73 460 Lincoln and stick a spring under the frame and let it down. Forget the car they were going on, an old Fairlane probably, but I remember I had to get a couple neighbor buddies to sit on the fender too, to get them to compress enough !! Then we wrapped it with some special packing tape my sister's boyfriend gave us. He swore it would hold !!! It did. After I started wrenching for a living, I worked for a guy that did not have a strut compressor. He had us compress the struts by raising the inground lift, and then stick the bottom of the strut in a crack/divot in the floor and letting the lift down on a plate he torched a hole in, on the top of the strut. Tricky process, controlling the lift drop with the air pressure. But, it worked,
TrailBeast
AKA Mopars4us on Youtube
I have used them quite a bit, and laughed when I saw the picture because there is really no way those compressors slip off, but doing it with furniture clamps?
F that.
Matts440
Well-Known Member
Just helped my brother work on a friend of his 68 impala, we just bought the internal spring compressor, worked great but yes much rather have T bars, called and thanked my dad for getting me into mopars.
chryslerfat
Well-Known Member
Yea not as easy as torsion bars but he can put headers in his car in the amount of time it takes to eat a sandwich.
famous bob
mopar misfit
HERE, HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS !!!!!!!!!!!
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