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    Got my springs done

    After waiting for so long to do my springs (convert to 2004 springs) we did them yesterday and it makes a hell of a difference. We tried to do the seal on the tail of the tranny but we just cant get those bolts off where the driveshaft meets the rear end..
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    We tried to do the seal on the tail of the tranny but we just cant get those bolts off where the driveshaft meets the rear end..
    When I did my driveshaft I had the same problem. What I did was get the bottom two then put the trans in neutral and rolled the car back just a little. So the bolts that were on top are now on bottom.
    -Michael

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      #3
      It takes quite a bit or torque to get them off. A 250ft*lb impact wouldn't get mine off. I had to use the 3' breaker bar, and still had to give it my all.

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        #4
        lol I thought you meant you couldn't get to them.

        Yes, they were a little tough, but nothing I couldn't handle.
        -Michael

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          #5
          Springs are a bitch to do... I am not one to know much... but I help Chris when he was doing his and fuck that shit man... that took forever and lots of things got thrown in walls and at me (no jk) but man there was lots of anger in that barn!

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            #6
            Rear springs??

            I did mine in my parking lot with jackstands and a POS jack...

            Here's marcus teaching everyone the WRONG way to do it..
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              #7
              are all models springs a real bitch, or just the Aero-boxes? I am going to have to get to mine soon............

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                #8
                The rear springs on my vic were easy to swap.
                -Michael

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                  #9
                  front springs are the hard ones... and the dangerous ones...

                  my rear springs came out after taking loose the bottom shocks and lowering the axle housing down.
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                    #10
                    Fronts are somewhat tricky. The rears are a half hour job. Jack the car up, put it on stands, jack up the axle, take off the lower shock mount, and lower the axle, pop the spring in...
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                      #11
                      It was the front springs when I put the polly bushings in, what a whore on my towny. Other cars went great but the towny was a whore. I got rear bags biatches :guns:
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by 85crownHPP*
                        front springs are the hard ones... and the dangerous ones...

                        my rear springs came out after taking loose the bottom shocks and lowering the axle housing down.
                        Yep you got it! Takes longer to get the tools out and put them away.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by p71towny
                          It was the front springs when I put the polly bushings in, what a whore on my towny. Other cars went great but the towny was a whore. I got rear bags biatches :guns:
                          WTF did you do wrong, you jack up the frame, put a stand in there, move the jack to under the a-frame-lower cntl arm, remove the pinch bolt from the upper ball joint, if you have abs, I would disc the wire to the sensor, anyway, just slowly let the jack down all the way, take a walk away just incase you fubared something and the spring wants to go for a fly. When the jack is down all the way, you should be able to just lift them out. of course you have to remove the tire, and the shock first.

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                            #14
                            Jiroc-

                            The energy that is stored in an automobile coil spring, especially one in a full-sized car like ours can kill you.
                            I never understood how people removed springs without a spring compressor. I know it's possible, but I've seen too many horror shows over the years...

                            BTW, the rear springs are so easy it's a joke. The fronts are a PITA, but that's using a spring compressor. If that spring "wants to go for a fly", the potential danger is VERY great, the spring will go right into/through a thin wall, a person, any property around, etc.
                            Everybody has different ways to do things, but please, God, be careful, we'd hate to lose someone on account of something like that.

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                              #15
                              :stupid:

                              Dont fuck with them. Horrer story follows...

                              Had a customer who need his controle arm bushing replaced, he refused to pay the labor to do it. So he tried to do it himself. A week later the car shows up on a truck, and need to be fixed. The engine bay got really screwed up, and the person... A broken collar bone, broken jaw, and a bruised rib.

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