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Yes, the entire tool is supposed to fit through the hole in the frame. Since yours needed significant tension on it to pull it through, you'll probably have to enarge the hole a little more to get it back out.
Also, when I did mine, I found that I had to compress 8.5 coils with the tool -- any less and I wouldn't have been able to get the compressed spring past the perch. I had to raise the wheel a little with my jack so the spring would compress and become straighter in order to thread the plates towards the ends of the spring in order to capture that many coils.
FYI, my compressor tool didn't come with instructions -- it looked to me like it was meant that one should grab N + 0.5 coils. That way, the coils exit the compressor plates on opposite sides, which just seemed like the right way to use it (more balanced stresses).
This is what I did, but like I said, my tool had no instructions and I couldn't find any anywhere either. Don't assume I did things right, or even the safest way -- it was my first time and I just had to reason it out and guess. You might want to give others a few days to comment on what I did and point out any flaws before doing what I did.
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