No special spring compressors needed. (This is old school method )
1. Jack the car up.
2. Remove the front wheel.
3. Remove the disc brake and hang it up out of the way.
4. Remove the front shock.
5. Unbolt the front sway bar (if installed)
6. Remove cotter pin and loosen upper tie rod nut, just a few threads only. ( Heat gun and big hammer if needed to break loose the nut)
7. Wrap a chain in and around the coil spring, just in case it decides to become a missile. (This will slow it down a bit)
8. Place floor jack under the outer side of the lower A-Frame and apply slight pressure to remove upper Tie Rod Nut.
9. Slowly lower the floor jack and let the front spindle flop to the outer side.
10. Continue to lower the floor jack until its all the way down ( Not resting on the garage floor )
11. Coil spring should be able to be removed easily.
12. Install new spring, ( note flat side up )
13. Slowly Jack up the lower A-frame making sure the upper spring goes into the round groove and lower end fits into the lower A-frame. (wrap a chain around the spring)
14. Install the upper Tie-Rod end into the spindle, (may use a pry bar on the upper A-frame to get the nut on) tighten the nut down and slowly release the floor jack.
15. Put everything back together, make sure everything is tight and you are done.
Hope this helps, i seen too many videos showing all kinds of ways to do this, but this is the Old School method and it works.
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1. Jack the car up.
2. Remove the front wheel.
3. Remove the disc brake and hang it up out of the way.
4. Remove the front shock.
5. Unbolt the front sway bar (if installed)
6. Remove cotter pin and loosen upper tie rod nut, just a few threads only. ( Heat gun and big hammer if needed to break loose the nut)
7. Wrap a chain in and around the coil spring, just in case it decides to become a missile. (This will slow it down a bit)
8. Place floor jack under the outer side of the lower A-Frame and apply slight pressure to remove upper Tie Rod Nut.
9. Slowly lower the floor jack and let the front spindle flop to the outer side.
10. Continue to lower the floor jack until its all the way down ( Not resting on the garage floor )
11. Coil spring should be able to be removed easily.
12. Install new spring, ( note flat side up )
13. Slowly Jack up the lower A-frame making sure the upper spring goes into the round groove and lower end fits into the lower A-frame. (wrap a chain around the spring)
14. Install the upper Tie-Rod end into the spindle, (may use a pry bar on the upper A-frame to get the nut on) tighten the nut down and slowly release the floor jack.
15. Put everything back together, make sure everything is tight and you are done.
Hope this helps, i seen too many videos showing all kinds of ways to do this, but this is the Old School method and it works.
[ATTACH]11558IMG_5211 (2).jpg IMG_5214 (2).jpg
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