2" Coil SPacer install, HELP!

[FastOrange]

so i have everything tore down, the spring out, ziptie'd on the spacer, but i cant for the life of me get the spring back in, and he compressors i have don work cause they either hit the frame or the control arm!!!

HELP!

 

[oohunter04oo]

Maybe try to rent a different kind of compressor. Also autozone sells they look like little spring compressors and you use them to lower a truck (not the right way) you just tighten the coil together that would give you more room. Also make sure you push your lower control arm as far down as you can and use a pry bar to get the coil in but that will require an extra hand. So call a buddy over to help you.

 

[95C1500]

What we did was pull the LCA all the way down and placed the spring into both spring pockets and took a floor jack and slowly started pushing the LCA up and then bolted everything together. I don't remember if we used the spring compressor or not. Most likely we did.

 

[oohunter04oo]

Sound dangerous. I would bolt the lower balljoints up if you take the lower completely off.

 

[95C1500]

Sound dangerous. I would bolt the lower balljoints up if you take the lower completely off.

Are you talking to me? We didn't take it off. We pushed it all the way down.

 

[phule]

I used the autoZone compressor that goes up through the middle of the spring. Un did the lower bj and sway bar link compressed the lower spring till it was litterally half the original size slid everything back in and prayed didn't let go.

 

[FastOrange]

That's the way I'm doing it too, but I can't get it to compress enough to even come close to being in the pocket!

Sent from my Igloo

 

[95C1500]

I used the autoZone compressor that goes up through the middle of the spring. Un did the lower bj and sway bar link compressed the lower spring till it was litterally half the original size slid everything back in and prayed didn't let go.

my dad fractured his thumb using that el cheapo POS.

 

[oohunter04oo]

Are you talking to me? We didn't take it off. We pushed it all the way down.

Oh. I thought you meant y'all took it all the way ofd

 

[Steve's Chevy]

We installed some lift springs and had to remove the LCA and put the spring in the pockets and jack up with a good floor jack.

Sketchy, um yes. But worked fricken awesome!!! But four hands are better than two when doing this.