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Originally Posted by Kebowers
Why take such life threatening chances trying to save a very few dollars.
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You don't get it, do you? Some people said doing this job without a spring compressor was dangerous. But others reported just the opposite (see posts 12 and 18 above). So I set out to learn the answer, and was successful. It has nothing to do with money. Your overdramatization of "life threatening" is just plain silly. As I mentioned, the spring is already almost fully extended with the car up in the air, and only extends another 3 or 4 inches by lowering the control arm past its normal limits. If I took video, you would be shocked to see that the arm drops and the spring just slips out of the perch with very little force. You may need a prybar to get it past the quarter-inch indentation on the control arm, but there is no life threatening danger at all.
This forum is about learning. I'm merely passing information on in the hopes that someone will benefit from this thread. If they read it and decide they want to use a spring compressor anyway, that's their option.