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**Dan in Pasadena** · 07-30-2013, 12:00 AM

I mentioned it last week? Man, memory is the SECOND thing to go, they say!

Since I'd never replaced the springs before I had no idea how stiff they were supposed to be...so pulling them by hand I thought, "hmmm....is THIS right?" Then when I got the new ones, WOW! WHAAT a pain in the ass that was. I used the "floor jack stretch & wrenches-between-the-spring-coils" trick but I still had to be careful not to pinch the hell out of my hands.

07-30-2013, 12:00 AM	#2640
Dan in Pasadena Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Glendora, CA Posts: 6,351	Re: What Did You Do With Your Truck Today ? I mentioned it last week? Man, memory is the SECOND thing to go, they say! Since I'd never replaced the springs before I had no idea how stiff they were supposed to be...so pulling them by hand I thought, "hmmm....is THIS right?" Then when I got the new ones, WOW! WHAAT a pain in the ass that was. I used the "floor jack stretch & wrenches-between-the-spring-coils" trick but I still had to be careful not to pinch the hell out of my hands. __________________ '55 Big Window Shortbed, Drive-It-&-Work-On-It slid down the "slippery slope" to a Frame-Off Rodstoration! LQ4/4l85e/C4 IFS/Mustang 8.8 rearend w/3.73's Dan's '55 Big Window "Build" - Well, Kinda!