following on from my differant way of changing a turbocharger, i will now demonstrate how to change both rear springs in one hour and 30 mins

and that includes coffee and a phonecall

jack car up and do the following:




cut old spring in half using trusty angle grinder and then pull out of its place to give you.....




half and half of a spring - nice and easy

next compress your new spring using spring expressors - if you use some like mine, you will be very scared of them breaking and exploding into a million pieces - i speak from experience




then while the spring is squashed so small that if it does explode, its going to take your face with it, wrap some steel wire round it next to where you have compressed it - give it a couple of winds and tie it off and trim the excess and then slowly remove the spring expressors




slot the spring in place like thus...




then get the big gloves on and the wire cutters and cut the wire one side at a time




and then the other side, but swiveling the spring into its correct place before finally cutting it free






then once its free, lever the rear arm down to spin the spring into exact place.








and now my car sits 20mm higher than previously, my exhaust will love me longtime and my mother will stop complaining at the white scrapes on the driveway at the bottom










i should do some technical articles

 

pmsl

 

reminds me of my Orion 1.6i Ghia i bought which already had lowered springs on it and i wanted it lower so cut em in half

 

i wanted to raise mine - you rough fooker

 

You should do a TV programme called:

"When spring compressors attack"

 

LOL seems a lot easier to do proving to gota grinder

Car driver better now?

 

Im suprised your still alive tbh mate

 

spring compressors attacking are nothing compared to.....................


angle grinders.............


made some bonnet lifters on my old XR4x4 using a bootlid gas strut, needed to put a flatside on it, so out with the angle grinder while the gas strut was in the vice, started taking material off and all of a suden it went boooooooooom, blew the angle grinder out of my hand, blew the disc in bits, smashed the head clean off the vice and took the garage window out with it, also had bleeding ears for the rest of the day


lesson to you all - never touch gas struts with an angle grinder unless you want to die

 

car drives lovely now rhys - steering is more precise and turn in feels better

 

 

i like it rough and low

 

grrrr you big boy

 

loon

i hate using spring compressors

 

another rough one - when engines attack

had to remove an engine from a bus going to scrap when i was a psv fitter (3 years since), thought fuck it, this'll be made easy - lifted bus up on hetra's (one per wheel, lifting system), then put a hydraulic lifting table under the engine, went round with oxy/aceteline gas cutter and cut everything i cound find, fuel lines, hydo lines, electrics, engine mounts, gearbox mounts, propshaft, and then lowered the table - engine wouldn't come out - bit odd, anyway, couldnt see anything so moved table away, went into bus and while holding onto the seats, started stamping on the engine (was an old Mk2 national so engine flaps on the saloon floor) - engine gave way and landed on teh floor - 4 foot drop - went with a right bang, smashed the sump in bits, split the gearbox bell housing, cracked the block and fucked it totally - i got a right bollocking for that

 

u should be on mechanics from hell

 

the bus was scrap anyway - dunno what they moaned about

 

fookin hell, death wish city.

I take it your aware of the damage a compressed spring can do?

 

i'm more of aware of the damage it can do - i've seen them explode and boy its fun

 

LMFAO @ Angle Grinding a gas strut, you fucking re re

 

Your crazy

 

Your method is sound... provided you wear safety goggles.

Without goggles, it's plain madness

 

Graceland = JOHN WAYNE ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee Ha!

 

 

You my friend are a complete fookin nutbox.....

 

froggy - i wear a full face grinding sheild

 

Perfectly safe then

 

PMSL at all of those

 

I'm sorry... but that is Łooking funny... I really did LOL at that.. Now Im off to find your turbo thread

 

big gloves, big face sheild, 2 coats - one with padding

i'm safe i am

 

PMSL @ stories!

 

fukinel gracy ya a fukin loon man

 

fooking hell , are you aware the actual load a spring can release at

on a serious note and being honest idone some stupid things before ( like when igot under the car to see if the driveshaft was in place due to no drive i jacked up 1 side of the car and got my missus to start it and stick it in gear so see it spin or not, luck the driveshaft was fooked ot the car would have fell off the STANDARD ford jack and crushed me )

the spring compresion wont fook with


btw what spring are they now, standard ride height or still lowered as i was my cossie back to standard on the rear

 

FPMSL @ stories


LOON

 

I did mine 4wks ago now and it toke me bloody ages But i got the old ones out ok as they were too f!!king low the hard bit was getting the new ones in place and i did use spring conpressers (and when the slip off the spring they go for miles in every direction ) But i got mine in place and jacked the beam up to take of the presure and then undid them that way ALOT SAFER A f!!king pain but safer

That remends me i need to have some brake its made up duo to 2 of the bolts letting on (not snapping but braking the nut thats weld into the motor But i have a Plain Just need to get the sizes and find someone to make them for me

 

Those spring compressors are fucking useless for front struts on vauxhalls. Whne you compress it and slide the spring in, then fit the top mount, u try to undo them and you can't because the bit you need to get the stupidly unconventional 12mm socket on is pushed right up against the spring cup

 

lol these stories are sooo fookin funny

 

Brom - you got any jobs going?

Ginge - i am all to aware of what happens when a spring compressor breaks - its happened to me once before


and people - yes, i've raised the back end of my car 20mm over what it was previously - it now goes where i want and still has the exhaust when i get there