[eikond]

Thanks for adding the new excerpt about using spring compressors.. makes me feel better.



BTW.. You can get spring compressors at harbor freight for $14.99.

Darren.. I'm not trying to rain on your parade.. it's a fantastic how to thread.. you did a great job. I've just been around the car forum world a long time and I've seen and heard too many stories of people cutting corners and getting hurt. Spring replacements are one of the more common places that people cut corners and make mistake and wind up hurting themselves. The worst issue has always been methods of lifting a car off the ground to work underneath it. It never ceases to amaze me the methods some people will use to lift a car.. and how they sometimes fail and sometimes kill people..

Anyhow, I'm just a stickler for being "proper" or "politically correct" when writing a how-to thread. We should always describe the proper way of doing something and make sure you say what the proper way is. Then if you've got a shortcut or creative method of your own.. go ahead and list that as well.. but always with a disclaimer saying that it's not the "proper" way.

Anyhow.. sorry for the digression.. back to the topic at hand.