Hi there,
Me and my mates were working well into the early hours this morning trying to get standard springs into the rear of my mk1 focus, I used to have coilovers and the fronts were easy to sort but the rears just wont go back in!
Anybody got any advice?
thanks
Tom

 

spring compressors.

 

we tried that but you cant get the spring in or out with the spring compressors on.

cheers
Tom

 

have you disconnected the arb? should help to lower the arm down a bit more.

second idea with the sring compressors. compress the spring off the car and then tie some rope around to keep it compressed. then you can slide the spring in and just cut the rope.

 

done one yesterday using spring compressors and welding rods wrapped round springs so the compressors can be removed when compressed to suitable lenth but be vary carefull

 

we compressed them and used cable ties, jubilee clips and allsorts, but none could really keep the tension, and we undid the control blade, the arm that holds it up and the arb, was told not to loosen off any of the cups because that could f*** the whole thing up.
cheers
tom

 

i used a jack between the bodywork and the rear arm and jacked the arm down. worked a piece of piss

 

They are a TOTAL CUNT to do. When I took the springs out of my old focus, I put the clamps inside the spring and clamped them up. There's a hole in the bottom of the bottom spring cup for putting the clamps in and out.

 

If you cannot lower the control arms down then its going to be a right pig of a job. All the suggestions mentioned would work but take care, the only problem with jacking the control arms down is the likely hood of tearing the bushes from their outer shells

 

All I did was undo the bottom shock bolt and the ARB job done...