Re: [Amc-list] Spring compressor
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Re: [Amc-list] Spring compressor
- From: wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:06:18 +0000
You have to put the links back together they got butchered...
He's working on a 70 up anyway, won't do you a bit of good...
--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Davis Martin <martin-davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hey Dan,
> Links are to nothing.
> Are you ever gonna finish the HMX?
> Davis
>
> --- On Thu, 1/15/09, Dan Strohl <DStrohl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Dan Strohl <DStrohl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Spring compressor
> To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 8:37 AM
>
> Hey all, I know you're talking about trunnion spring compressors, but I
> thought I'd gloat for a moment to show the one I built to install the
> springs in the 79 AMX:
>
> http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/05/21/hmx-diy-coil-spring-compre
> ssor/
>
> http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/06/05/hmx-spring-compressor-work
> s-half-of-the-suspension-in/
>
> dan
>
>
>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:01:20 -0800
> From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Spring compressor
> To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans."
> <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Wayne E Lamothe wrote:
>
> > Seems to me there should be a way to put everything
> > in place and then jack the lower part of the suspension into place
> with
> > the spring installed.
>
> Nope, with the upper arms installed, and dropped to their lowest
> position, the uncompressed spring will not fit in. You must compress it
> to get it in there.
>
> If it's got the hat with ears, just drop the car on it, put on chain and
>
> BIG S-hooks then jack up the car.
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